First of all, ATM is proud to announce that unlike some we have not interrupted our shipments to China and have found solutions to continue to do so. The coronavirus outbreak still continue to have an important impact on supply chains, from reduction of air capacity to ocean reefer surcharges and dozens of blank sailings. [...]
ATM has already found solutions for your shipments from southeastern China. During the last few months, you have noticed, the demonstrations in Hong Kong are increasing, and this also impacts the transport. Below the current disturbances: Rail: Delayed services and disruptions (blockages especially China <-> Hong Kong and Subway) Road: some blocked roads [...]
CMA CGM has ordered 10 container ships from the Chinese state shipyard with a unit capacity of 15,000 TEU. These ships are 366 meter long and will operate on lines between Asia and the Mediterranean. They will be delivered from 2021. The French group relies on less polluting types of propulsion, and therefore half of [...]
The Swissterminal informed us that due to an urgent overhaul of the crane of 30.11. as of 08.12.2018, only one crane instead of two will be available for handling in Frenkendorf (road and rail). Please note that during the inspection period, track capacity is greatly reduced, that is, we need to reduce single wagon traffic [...]
According to the 2018 CNUDED (Conference on Trade and Development) report, growth in shipping traffic is not expected until 2023. Trade increased strongly in 2017 to 4%, based on the recovery of the global economy. Statistically speaking, this is the highest in the last five years. Global transshipment volumes reached $ 10.7 billion and [...]
From next week, it will no longer be possible to use the Rhine for container traffic. There is no other choice than to use rail or truck. We suggest that you reserve your containers a few weeks in advance, especially for export, because we can book inbound containers much earlier, compared to outbound ones.
For many years, it is possible to travel with the largest container ships of the world. This transportation is not well known to the general public, but does delight sea lovers who can enjoy a long and slow journey, discovering the largest ports in the world and satisfy their thirst for freedom when the ship [...]
During the last weeks/months they had about twice as many empty gate in than empty gate out. Due to this situation, they have reached their capacity limits in Frenkendorf and they need to stop acceptance of all empty equipment as from 03.09.2018. As the rhine terminals are also short of space they can only offer [...]
This beautiful summer also has its disadvantages. In fact, the low rainfall makes the Rhine level drop sharply. We will soon arrive at level 7, which means your containers cannot be moved smoothly anymore to/from the ports of sailing. The solution is to reserve your export containers by rail, but we must make reservations well [...]
For several months, the price of oil has steadily increased, reaching its highest level since 2014. In light of this increase, which is much higher than expected (more than 20% compared to the beginning of the year), since June 1st shipping companies have applied an "Emergency Bunker Surchage", which increases overall transport costs. For the [...]