Mercator International

On May 28, 2019, the Québec Port Authority (QPA) announced a long-term commercial agreement with Hutchison Ports and the Canadian National Railway (CN) to build and operate a new deepwater container terminal known as Project Laurentia. Project Laurentia has a unique strategic location, with water depths that will allow Neo-Panamax container ships to deliver imports

IMO 2020[i] sulfur regulations are about to force an unprecedented reduction in the sulfur content of fuels burned on the open ocean, and this will cause the differential between oil prices and bunker prices to rise dramatically over the second half of 2019 and into 2020. In anticipation of rising oil prices and rising fuel

The most recent article by Derik Andreoli, Principal at Mercator International, published in Logistics Management, presents a detailed analysis about the degree of risk that port volumes face as a consequence of the import duties levied by the U.S. on Chinese goods. We present a re-print of the article next. Chinese imports account for nearly

When it commenced operations in Jun 1, 2007, the Polish Deepwater Container Terminal (DCT) Gdańsk specialized in handling feeder ships. With deep water and modern facilities in a geographically advantaged position in the Baltic Sea, however, DCT Gdańsk was able to attract direct services sailing from Asia, which has been one of the key drivers

As the US continues to negotiate more favorable terms of its trade policy, a first round of tariffs on China originally covering 818 tariff lines worth $34 billion of 2017 import value has escalated to $200 billion of Chinese goods, with a bigger wave of measures also in the pipeline. With the $200 billion round