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Newsletters | 20 August 2021
DREWRY WORLD CONTAINER INDEX
Ocean freight rates are still rising and are not expected to decrease any time soon. According to analyst Drewry, their World Container Index increased by 2% or $192 this week, to $9,613 per forty-foot container. Compared to the same week last year, this represents a 360% increase, and marks the 18th consecutive week of increases.
Newsletters | 20 August 2021
PROFITEERING CONTAINER LINES RISK A POLICY BACKLASH IN COMPETITION, CLIMATE AND TAXATION
Chris Bryant from Bloomberg Opinion reported on 19 August about the current situation in liner shipping, the potential long-term consequences and what can be done by the carriers to improve their image towards consumers and policymakers. The article recalls the extraordinary financial results shipping lines will realise this year, thanks to ever-increasing freight rates: container lines could collectively make $100 billion in operating income in 2021, according to Drewry.
Newsletters | 20 August 2021
NINGBO TERMINAL SET TO REOPEN NEXT WEEK
The port authority in Ningbo, China announced this week that it is planning a phased resumption at Meishan Terminal, which was closed on 11 August after a dock worker tested positive for coronavirus. Since then, no new cases have been detected, according to health authorities. Nevertheless, the delays and rerouting that ensued from the shutdown will continue to reverberate throughout other ports and continually cause congestion in the global supply chains.
Newsletters | 20 August 2021
REVISION OF THE COMBINED TRANSPORT DIRECTIVE ON ITS WAY
On 19 August, the European Commission published the inception Impact Assessment for the revision of the Combined Transport Directive (Directive 92/106/EEC). The revision of the CT Directive will be carried out in an integrated approach with a number of other policies, including, inter alia, the planned revisions of the TEN-T Guidelines and the Rail Freight Corridors Regulation.
News | 13 August 2021
CLECAT Newsletter 2021/30
Newsletters | 13 August 2021
CLECAT Newsletter 2021/30
Newsletters | 13 August 2021
NEW REQUIREMENTS FOR IMPORTING PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN INTO GREAT BRITAIN
The UK Trader Readiness Team Animal and Animal Products Imports Project has announced that starting 1 October 2021, there will be new requirements to continue importing animal products from the European Union into Great Britain. These include, inter alia, pre-notifying authorities that consignments will be entering Great Britain and uploading a certified Export Health Certificate using the Import of products, animals, food and feed system (IPAFFS).
Newsletters | 13 August 2021
€410 MILLION GERMAN STATE AID FOR RAIL FREIGHT
On 30 July, the European Commission approved, under EU State aid rules, two German schemes supporting the rail freight sector and the long-distance rail passenger sector in the context of the coronavirus outbreak. The two schemes will ensure increased public support in the form of a reduction of the charges paid by railway companies to access rail infrastructure to further encourage the shift of freight and passenger traffic from road to rail.
Newsletters | 13 August 2021
EC APPROVES €271 MILLION TO PROMOTE RAIL FREIGHT IN SWEDEN
On 23 July, the European Commission approved, under EU State aid rules, an amendment with a new total budget of SEK 2.75 billion (approximately €271 million) of a Swedish aid scheme, originally approved by the Commission on 12 May 2020 (SA.57886), to increase the support for rail freight transport in Sweden.
Newsletters | 13 August 2021
CONNECTING EUROPE EXPRESS CONFERENCE ON RAIL FREIGHT
On 5 October, the Connecting Europe Express train will stop in Luxembourg, where the European Commission, in cooperation with the Luxembourg Ministry of Mobility and Public Works, CER and its members, is organising a conference dedicated to rail freight in the ambit of the European Year of Rail.