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Thursday, October 23, 2025
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Topic: shipping

India, China, S.Korea are taking unusual steps to tackle their container shortages

Indian Railways is discussing if its current 25% discount for moving empty containers inland along some routes needs to be extended beyond March.

How a container crisis has led to food piling up in all the wrong places

China has revved up its export economy and is paying huge premiums for containers, making it far more profitable to send them back empty than to refill them.

Why high shipping rates are a new headwind for global economy

Transport woes are plaguing consumer & healthcare sectors that are dealing with a dearth of available shipping containers to move components & products out of Asia’s export powers.

39 Indian sailors continue to be stranded in Chinese waters, no resolution on horizon

The sailors are on two ships, the Indian MV Jag Anand and Swiss-Italian MV Anastasia, that have been denied permission to offload Australian coal they are carrying.

How a shortage of containers is threatening India’s nascent export revival

Global trade has been hit by shortage of containers & India’s situation is worsened by tensions with China that have reduced imports -- and incoming containers.

Shipping groups call on Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to save thousands of stranded seafarers

Industry bodies said global trade would simply cease to exist without seafarers and urged Bezos to exert pressure on incoming Biden administration to recognise them as key workers.

IIT-Madras develops autonomous solar vehicle to survey water bodies, provide real-time data

The institute is already in the process of commercialising & licensing the technology with the help of shipping ministry. The vehicle is expected to be operational in early 2021. 

23 Indian crew, stuck aboard merchant vessel in Chinese port since June, face uncertain future

Most crew members have been on board far longer than permitted limit of 11 months, but China is refusing permission for their repatriation ‘due to Covid’.

Shipping companies use a number of dirty practices to evade responsibility, study shows

The shipping industry handles 80-90 per cent of global trade in goods and has been the backbone of the ‘third wave’ of globalisation that started in 1980s.

Chabahar faces more delay as India junks deal with China crane supplier, floats fresh tender

India was irked by delay on part of the Chinese firm to supply cranes, and its demand New Delhi indemnify any losses suffered because of US sanctions.

On Camera

Pakistan can’t bend Taliban with bombs. It must stop the Yemen-isation of Durand Line

This confrontation looks subcontracted—escalation to re-establish Pakistan's indispensability to outside capitals while squeezing Afghanistan back under an old paradigm.

Boom to bust: Haunted by Ketan Parekh saga, 117-yr-old Calcutta Stock Exchange’s future lies in limbo

CSE, one of India’s oldest bourses, is edging towards a voluntary exit. It could never recover from market manipulation scam that caused a payment crisis at exchange back in 2001. 

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.