The use of real-time cargo status data is expected to make trade finance more efficient, reducing credit costs, and processing and payment times, the Hong Kong government said.
While some gateways are expanding their intermodal access to vie for discretionary cargo destined for inland locations, others are moving full speed ahead with capacity expansions that will allow them to handle more and larger ships.
With demand conditions unlikely to improve in the short term, LTL carriers are putting more of their capacity, old and new, into reserve.