According to the weekly report of China's export container transportation market released by Shanghai Shipping Exchange on April 22, from April 18 to April 22, China's export container transportation market generally declined slightly, and the freight rates of most ocean routes fell to varying degrees.

U.S. President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he would ban Russian-linked ships from U.S. ports. He said it was "another critical step" the United States had taken with its allies.

According to data from maritime data consultancy Windward, 20% of all container ships in global trade are currently in congestion due to a sharp increase in the number of container ships waiting outside ports due to congestion in recent months. That means one-fifth of the world's container ships are stuck in port congestion, and its data shows that a quarter of the ships are stuck in Chinese ports.

On April 19, according to media reports, Mikhail Mizantsev, director of the Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said on the 18th that 76 ships from 18 countries were trapped in Ukraine ports.

Recently, a number of shipping companies announced that from May 1, the "General Rate Surcharge" (GRI) on the Asia-US trans-Pacific route will be increased.

According to Ship & Bunker, ships carrying contaminated fuel in Singapore are trying to offload the product and transfer it to Fujairah players.

After 35 days of ran aground, the Ever Forward container ship finally got out of trouble.

Amazon issued a notice to sellers on Wednesday that it would impose a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge on third-party sellers using FBA, which will begin April 28, the first time the company has imposed such a surcharge.

On April 14, a Maersk-owned "MONTE CERVANTES" container ship was carrying out cargo operations at the Tecon terminal in the port of Santos, Brazil, when two containers fell from the ship into the water. Four containers collapsed, but these collapsed containers are still on board.

On April 14, the container ship "HAIAN CITY" collided with the product tanker "ORION EXPRESS" about 15 nautical miles south of Chittagong port in Bangladesh. The accident caused one or more containers of the ship "HAIAN CITY" to fall into the sea. Both ships were damaged, details of which are unknown.