Freight Market Update: July 22, 2020
Severe flooding overwhelms key Yangtze River ports as China hits its top flood alert, while tight air capacity returns amid the COVID-19 recovery in July 2020.
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Freight Market Update: June 10, 2020
Blank sailings drift into peak season as COVID-19 keeps ocean demand low, prompting carriers to manage capacity and hold up rates, June 10, 2020.
Freight Market Update: March 25, 2020
As China restarts production, COVID-19 worker quarantines, container shortages, and terminal closures threaten cargo pile-ups at Western ports in March 2020.
Freight Market Update: March 11, 2020
As the WHO declares COVID-19 a pandemic, supply chains deepen their strain and a container shortage in China disrupts US agricultural exports.
Freight Market Update: March 18, 2020
Tanker rates skyrocket as Russia and Saudi Arabia boost oil output amid COVID-19, with ocean, air, and trucking news for the week of March 11, 2020.
Freight Market Update: March 4, 2020
The COVID-19 outbreak ripples through supply chains as U.S. port cargo volumes are forecast to drop 20% or more after Chinese New Year, March 4, 2020.
Freight Market Update: February 26, 2020
Flexport tracks how the COVID-19 outbreak slows China manufacturing, triggering mass blank sailings and looming equipment shortages at major ports.
Freight Market Update: February 19, 2020
Coronavirus factory shutdowns keep crippling supply chains after Chinese New Year, prompting multinationals to move parts production out of China for good.