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LONDON: Amid worsening port congestion in South-east Asia, carriers are seeking new digital solutions to improve landside container logistics. While things at Yantian may be improving, the bottleneck of schedule delays and cargo backlogs could still take weeks to unravel, and reports surfaced this week of new congestion in Singapore. Ocean Alliance members CMA CGM and Cosco each plan to skip a scheduled call at the major transhipment hub. Elsewhere in South-east Asia, gateways such as Thailand’s Laem Chabang are also grappling with deviating shipping schedules and the ripples from China’s congestion, all putting further pressure on the scarcity of...
