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Port of Los Angeles Surpasses 10 Million TEU in 2025 - Marking the Third Time in History

Phaata

23-01-2026

Despite tariff headwinds, the Port of Los Angeles closed 2025 with a throughput of 10.2 million TEUs – crossing this milestone for the third time in its history.

Vienna Airport Sets New Air Cargo Record in 2025

Phaata

22-01-2026

With total throughput reaching a record 313,763 tonnes in 2025, Vienna Airport continues to affirm its position as a key logistics gateway for Central and Eastern Europe.

CMA CGM Scraps Red Sea Plans for Asia-Europe Trade; Xeneta Warns of Supply Chain Unpredictability

Phaata

21-01-2026

CMA CGM has announced a return to Cape of Good Hope routings for Asia-Europe trades, reversing its recent decision to transit the Red Sea. Experts from Xeneta warn that this constant shifting creates instability for shippers, eroding trust in schedule reliability and increasing inventory management risks.

Pre-Lunar New Year Air Freight Peak: Shippers Urged to Book Early

Phaata

21-01-2026

Ahead of the Lunar New Year (February 17), leading freight forwarders such as Scan Global Logistics and Dachser are collectively warning shippers to book 1-2 weeks in advance. Extended factory closures and airline flight cuts are expected to cause severe capacity shortages across Asia.

Surging India-Iran Air Freight: Risk of 'Collateral Damage' from Proposed US 25% Tariffs

Phaata

20-01-2026

Air cargo volumes from India to Iran have surged nearly 200% over the past five years. However, this growth momentum faces significant challenges as US President Donald Trump’s proposal to impose a 25% tariff on Iran’s trading partners threatens to disrupt this burgeoning supply chain.

International Shipping and Logistics Market Update Week 3/2026 | Phaata

Phaata

19-01-2026

The international logistics marketplace platform Phaata provides an update on the international container shipping and logistics market for routes from Asia to North America, Europe, and more for Week 3 (from January 12 - 18), 2026.

Global Tanker Market Forecast 2026

Phaata

19-01-2026

Tim Smith, an expert from MSI, assesses that the tanker market enters 2026 on a solid footing driven by geopolitical instability and surging oil production. However, the wave of newbuilding deliveries commencing this year could exert pressure to reverse market trends in the 2027–2028 period.

Red Sea Restart: Signaling Lower Rates for Asia-US Shippers

Phaata

18-01-2026

Maersk’s decision to resume services via the Red Sea could release 6-8% of global shipping capacity, creating significant downward pressure on freight rates for Asia-US shippers as the market enters a crucial contract negotiation phase.

Wan Hai and Interasia Restructure NS5 Service and Launch New TVS Service Connecting Southeast Asia

Phaata

17-01-2026

Wan Hai Lines and Interasia Lines have announced plans to modify the NS5 service route starting next month, adding calls at Phuoc An (Vietnam) and Chiba (Japan). Simultaneously, the carriers are launching a new service, TVS, connecting Taiwan with key Southeast Asian ports.

OOCL orders five mega container ships

Phaata

12-03-2020

OOCL has signed a new shipbuilding contract with the shipbuilding engineering factories COSCO Nantong (NACKS) and the shipbuilding engineering factory KHI COSCO Dalian (DACKS) for five new container ships, at a cost of is 155.68 million USD for each vessel with a nominal capacity of 23,000TEU.

SM Line has cut intra-Asia services to focus on its trans-Pacific service

Phaata

11-03-2020

SM Line Group is narrowing its services in East Asia to focus on trans-Pacific services, now it is part of the 2M alliance with Maersk Line and MSC.

CMA CGM begins to recover container volumes in China

Phaata

10-03-2020

CMA CGM said there was a recovery in production from the Chinese market after the Corona virus (COVID-19) hit the country in February.

Ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach warns shipping volumes from Asia could fall even further

Phaata

09-03-2020

Ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach said declining cargo volumes in the coming months could be even more severe in February if the 2019 Corona disease (COVID-19) spread more widely in Asia.

Corona Virus interferes with K+N's acquisition of Asia market

Phaata

07-03-2020

Kuehne + Nagel is actively targeting growth in Asia and CEO Detlef Trefzger believes that the region will remain the center of global economic development despite the negative effects of the epidemic Corona virus 2019 (COVID-19) in the aviation and maritime markets.

China's top container ports experienced a 19.8% drop in volume in February

Phaata

06-03-2020

After container volumes of China's top eight container ports fell by 19.8% in February, the number of containers in circulation began to increase last week.

How are global supply chains managing the Corona virus?

Phaata

05-03-2020

More and more companies are affected by the deadly virus, as many organizations around the world fear that the epidemic situation could get worse. Supply Chain Digital Magazine is observing how the three global companies are responding to the Corona virus outbreak.

CMA CGM updates its operating situation in China due to COVID-19 impact (#No. 6)

Phaata

03-03-2020

Following the final announcement of CMA CGM on February 18, 2020, CMA CGM wants to update customers about their operating arrangements due to the situation of COVID-19 developing in mainland China.

US exporters are warned of a shortage of empty containers

Phaata

02-03-2020

Shipping lines are warning US exporters that Chinese factories were paralyzed for the third week in a row and carriers announced more than 80 trains were canceled in February and March, a shortage. Empty containers starting to appear within the United States will increase in the coming weeks.

Maersk Shipping: Corona Virus has a big impact on income

Phaata

02-03-2020

AP Moller - Maersk Group announced improved earnings and free cash flow in 2019, despite weaker market conditions and global container shipping growth of only 1.4%.