No one is going to argue that it’s been a rough couple of years for anyone who has to deal with the shipping industry and its challenges – which, to be perfectly honest, is all of us.
Of all the things we use and consume in the course of the day, a goodly percentage of each product or its ingredients/parts arrives via a boat from some far-off port.
COVID became the nightmare of simply trying to get a boat loaded to leave and arrive.
Over the course of the past year, it’s been the interim part of the journey that’s been the challenge, from dealing with the drought-stricken Panama Canal to Houthi attacks on shipping and then the explosion of violence following the Hamas terror attack on Israel with Iranians targeting shipping.
All of the default options have been closed off for transportation of goods around the world, and ships have been taking the long way home, both by necessity…
