Maersk CEO: Limitation of What Landside Infrastructure Can Cope With

Maersk CEO: Limitation of what landside infrastructure can cope with

Maersk CEO, Vincent Clerc, discusses how landside transport is being stretched due to a lack of investment, the bottlenecks that are appearing due to trade volatility, and concerns around low water levels on the Rhine.

Maersk adds Bonn contingency surcharge as low Rhine levels disrupt barge operations

Maersk has introduced a temporary contingency surcharge for container shipments moving via Bonn Inland Terminal as falling water levels on the Rhine disrupt barge operations. Barge operators have informed the carrier that vessels can no longer call at Bonn Inland Terminal due to current low water conditions and rapidly declining river levels. As a result, containers originally scheduled to move through Bonn may be handled at alternative location…

Port congestion now a structural part of global supply chains: Maersk CEO

The ability of ports and inland infrastructure to absorb growing and increasingly imbalanced trade flows has become the new constraint on industry growth, Vincent Clerc says.