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Increased costs due to the Houthi rebel attacks on Red Sea shipping are being felt most acutely in the car carrying sector of the market, European Commission shipping specialist Annika Kroon told a seminar on 23 February.
Kroon, from the Move directorate’s maritime transport and logistics arm, told the event organised by the European Shippers’ Council (ESC) that the car carrier sector had less spare capacity than other segments of the ...
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The ceramic industry is being affected by the unprecedented surge in freight rates, says the European Shippers Council.The imbalance in shipping following the Covid-19 pandemic have driven up costs and disrupted global trade to an extraordinary degree, it says. The Cerame-Unie trade group is calling on the European Commission to ...
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The European Shippers’ Council says it is disappointed at the lack of action by the European Commission over unreliability and high cost of liner shipping services.
At a recent meeting of the Maritime Forum on 25 March, which included shippers and forwarders along with carriers, port operators, ship owners and Commission ...
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The European Shippers Council has called for airport slots released by president Trump’s ban on passenger flights between Europe and the US to be partly used for additional freighter flights to ensure that urgent and medical goods remain available. It says that there is sufficient capacity at European airports to ...
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