
Challenges and opportunities for Global Shipping: UNCTAD Report
UNCTAD’s 2024 Review of Maritime Transport report provides a thorough examination of the present situation and prospects of the world’s maritime sector. It looks at

UNCTAD’s 2024 Review of Maritime Transport report provides a thorough examination of the present situation and prospects of the world’s maritime sector. It looks at

Recent attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea have severely affected shipping through the Suez Canal, adding to existing geopolitical and climate-related challenges facing

A gas tanker’s long, circuitous journey is highlighting the toll that war and climate change are taking on the shipping industry. Pacific Weihai loaded in

A year that started with smooth sailing for the global economy — vanishing supply snarls, slower inflation and fading pandemic gloom — is ending with

Chartering costs for a so-called Suezmax, the largest class of oil tanker that can pass through the Suez Canal with its tanks full, soared as

On 8 December, the Shanghai Containerised Freight Index showed that Asia-North Europe rates gained 9% to US$925/TEU, while Asia-Mediterranean rates went up by 10% to

The Panama Canal, the century-old engineering marvel that revolutionized global trade, is being squeezed shut by drought and forcing shippers worldwide to face a painful

The global seaborne trading map is in flux as shippers and shipowners reassess alternate routes to the parched Panama Canal, a waterway that accounts for

The Panama Canal Authority released plans to drastically scale down transits at the canal phased in over the next three months as it reports water

UNCTAD’s 2024 Review of Maritime Transport report provides a thorough

Recent attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea have

A gas tanker’s long, circuitous journey is highlighting the toll

A year that started with smooth sailing for the global

Chartering costs for a so-called Suezmax, the largest class of

On 8 December, the Shanghai Containerised Freight Index showed that

The Panama Canal, the century-old engineering marvel that revolutionized global

The global seaborne trading map is in flux as shippers

The Panama Canal Authority released plans to drastically scale down