But liners in 2022 are looking for two- to three-year contracts and are reluctant to waive accessorial fees and grant extra concessions. They want to penalize importers for failing to meet contract obligations and are much less willing to move containers inland. Although the bulk of the industry’s earnings are flowing to container ship owners, freight forwarders and logistics companies likely will prosper as well.

April 18, 2022 - The balance of the dry cargo and container market expected to remain stable in 2022. Also, it expected that there may be an improvement in freight rates. The effects of the pandemic will decrease with the increase in vaccination.

February 23, 2022 - The abatement of the pandemic is expected to make the shipping scenario more stable than in the last two years. The international container export volume is predicted to rise by around 2-3% in 2022.

January 25, 2022 - After an exceptional financial year in 2021, the shipping companies want and seem to hold all the cards they need to do even better in 2022.

January 3, 2022 - There were 101 container ships ... month are higher than in December, which were higher than in November. Annual contract rates are up sharply in 2022....

May 1, 2024 - Considering the extremely challenging circumstances and volatility in the Container Shipping industry since 2020, Shippers were hopeful of some semblance of stability in the market in 2022.

The container liner fleet reached 24.97 MTEU on 1 January 2022, for example; while order books predict a record 7.5% boost in 2023. There has been a significant change in trade routes for the past two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, so today 41% of the container ship capacity is deployed on ...

Shippers may also expect a second year of big increases for ocean contract rates, says Philip Damas, director and head of the supply chain advisors practice at London-based Drewry. “Challenges of securing ocean capacity amid current logjams and prospects of hugely inflated ocean freight costs in 2022 are forcing logistics buyers to consider radical options,” he says.

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August 27, 2024 - Dry bulk demand growth is expected to decrease to 0.2% in 2022 and settle at 1.7% in 2023, compared with 2.2% in 2021, while dry bulk fleet growth will slow to 2.8% in 2022, 2.2% in 2023, and 2.4% in 2024, compared with 3.4% in 2021.

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... In the same report – utilization index Q4 2021, IHS Markit predicts that the global dry bulk tonne-mile demand will increase by 3.3% in 2021, mainly driven by coal (6.1%) and minor bulk trade (13.0%). It will continue to grow by 4.5% in 2022, largely supported by global economic ...

According to Cefor (the Nordic ... trends, the container ship segment is the only large segment with an increase in the claim cost per vessel between 2020 and 2022 and an increase in the frequency of large losses...

Cargo shipping market to reach $4224.9 billion by 2031, Retail industry segment type to rise at 8.99% CAGR; Liquid cargo type to rake at 7.78% CAGR.

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1 month ago - For instance, as reported by Indian ... to 2022 and a 21% increase compared to 2019. The container market expanded by 0.2% year-on-year in 2023, reaching a total of 173.8 million TEUs.

October 20, 2021 - They might not be far off the mark, as our short-term market Xeneta Shipping Index (XSI®) documented a 900+ percent rate increase in the past year itself. In September 2021, the contract market Xeneta Shipping Index (XSI®) revealed a monthly ...

July 4, 2023 - Global trade slipped into contraction at the end of 2022, following the rationalisation of piled-up inventories and the economic and industrial stagnation in the US and Europe. Global trade has also entered a period of lower growth due to ...

March 26, 2025 - Beginning with the 2007–08 financial crisis, global shipping has faced a series of new challenges, with analysts tending to label each year more arduous than the one before. But the malevolent actions and worsening extreme weather conditions the industry encountered in 2024 are without match over the past decade and a half.