European forwarders’ association joins industry initiative on a fair, neutral bunker adjustment factor indexing mechanism for shippers, forwarders and shipping lines.

CLECAT has entered into a collaborative agreement with Drewry to raise awareness of Drewry’s Forwarder Benchmarking Club amongst its freight forwarder membership.

The current officer shortfall to crew the global merchant fleet is forecast to widen, despite the dampening effect of Covid-19, according to Drewry’s latest Manning Annual Review and Forecast.

In this 50-page special report, Drewry’s investment research team updates its independent assessment of the financial health of the box shipping industry. The full report is now available to purchase online.

Container shipping lines’ ability to provide cargo space as needed showed a marginal improvement in 2019, but this gain will have been dramatically reversed by the end of the first half of this year, according to the fourth annual shipper satisfaction survey of Drewry and the European Shippers’ Council (ESC).