Southeast Asian ports on the up and up

The Port of Colombo is experiencing a notable surge in transshipment volumes amid heightened cargo flows to and from the Middle East due to disruptions caused by the Red Sea crisis.

Beacon Technologies, the UK-based supply chain visibility platform, has developed a new product that will offer customers more information over cargo that is transhipped.

The time has come for the global shipping industry to look at largescale floating transhipment terminals.

Problems with container terminal capacity and logistics are holding back economic development.

The use of ports in Saudi Arabia as regional relay hubs is about to become a lot easier following an agreement reached between the Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani) and Saudi Customs to abolish the need for transhipment permits.

A new report from Dynamar finds 124 carriers are acting as feeder operators, and the total feeder market could be estimated at 65M TEU per year.