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June 21, 2011
But first, a brief stroll down memory lane. In November 2007, Sinotrans Shipping launched its initial public offering on the Hong Kong Exchange. It was received with relish by a market in raptures over mainland companies and eager to throw their money at anything from China going public.
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June 16, 2011
In this case, a string of islands. The remote, rocky and barely habitable Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. Less than two square miles of islands scattered over 165,000 square miles of ocean. WTF, as my kids say. The Spratlys are claimed by China…
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August 2, 2011
The principle of supply and demand is admittedly a fuzzy one when applied to container shipping lines. Even with the withdrawal of some capacity on the Asia-Europe trade, ship utilisation is still around 90 percent as cargo exports slow. That’s…
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July 28, 2011
China Shipping Container Lines will make a loss in the first half, as will the three big Japanese carriers and Vietnam’s Vinalines. In fact, we would be surprised if anyone made money. Let’s stay with CSCL and use it as an example of how the lines are struggling along.
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July 26, 2011
The first to come out was on slow steaming and its effects on Asia pacific supply chains. US-based logistics operator BDP International conducted a global survey of importers and exporters and their responses highlighted the deeply unpopular practice of slowing ships.
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July 21, 2011
Access to credit is critical to sustaining a manufacturing business in China, especially at the lower value, mass-producing end of the market. The orders for export goods can be measured in millions of units that require huge quantities of raw materials.
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July 19, 2011
We have been over this subject so often, but it remains the greatest obstacle between container shipping lines and their profitability, so here goes again. Market intelligence outfit Alphaliner reckons deliveries will reach 1.73 million TEUs in 2013…
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July 14, 2011
This qualifies as an “Only in the Philippines” story: Out of a shipment of 900 containers that arrived in the port of Manila and were supposed to be trucked to the port of Batangas, only 305 actually made it to Batangas. How do you lose almost…
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July 12, 2011
After peaking in the first quarter, world trade has been on a downward trend ever since. Rising commodity prices are making everything more expensive, retailers are cautious with stocking shelves and inventories are suffering. The disruption…
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June 28, 2011
Maersk Line this week confirmed an order for the second batch of its10 “triple-E” class container ships, the eyebrow-raising 18,000 TEU giants being built by Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co. The Danish carrier now has 20 of these vessels in the pipeline…
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June 23, 2011
The Yangtze River is the traditional boundary dividing north and south China. It has been both a critical a source of life and the bearer of tragic floods that have claimed thousands of lives through the ages. But the river has always been the…
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June 14, 2011
It’s the sort of thing that gets a CEO’s attention, mainly because shipping lines like to believe they are in the cargo transport business, not the killing people business. Okay, the eye-catching headline is imaginary, but the statistic it highlights is very real.
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June 9, 2011
At a big German logistics show in Munich last month, an executive from Boeing raised a horrifying prospect. He reckons that if the unrest sweeping North Africa and the Middle East spills over into the major oil producing countries like Saudi Arabia or Iran…
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June 8, 2011
It may seem we harp on about China’s changing manufacturing industry, but that's because of its direct impact on export ocean cargo and the import of raw materials. All the stuff we consume has to be made somewhere, and the mainland has pretty much cornered the manufacturing market.
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June 1, 2011
It was the lowest factory output in nine months. Hit by regular and crippling power shortages across the industrialised provinces, tightening of lending policies, soaring rents and labour costs, mainland manufacturing has slowed. According to…
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May 26, 2011
There is no lack of desire to eradicate piracy. shipowners, importers and exporters all want piracy to stop. escalating. and 522 seafarers were being held hostage off the coast of Somalia. these criminal activities! continue any longer,” said S. navigation and environment committee.
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May 24, 2011
China needs to curb its runaway inflation. In April, consumer price inflation was 5.3 percent and is expected to grow past 5.5 percent this month. An alarmed Beijing is desperately trying to cool down the economy, and with the end of the stimulus…
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May 19, 2011
Good hookers go where the money is. No money, no honey, as the saying goes. Or so I have been told. Shipping lines follow the same opportunistic business model – they will take cargo for money. And should the containers dry up, the lines will…
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May 17, 2011
Cargo volumes have been strong on the major trades so far this year, but the business has brought mixed fortunes to the industry. On one hand are the container ports, which are gleefully contemplating throughput numbers. Hamburg’s terminal operator…
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May 6, 2011
China recently overtook the US to become Chile’s largest trading partner. Trade consists mostly of exports, and the main commodity being shipped from Chile to the mainland is copper. China’s hunger for copper is immense. It is the world’s largest user…
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