{"id":12604,"date":"2025-05-13T18:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T18:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/hapag-lloyd-wont-take-bookings-if-port-congestion-leaves-cargo-stranded\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T18:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T18:56:38","slug":"hapag-lloyd-wont-take-bookings-if-port-congestion-leaves-cargo-stranded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/hapag-lloyd-wont-take-bookings-if-port-congestion-leaves-cargo-stranded\/","title":{"rendered":"Hapag-Lloyd Won&#8217;t Take Bookings if Port Congestion Leaves Cargo Stranded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">A \u201ccautious\u201d Hapag-Lloyd has warned it will not accept bookings if port congestion leaves cargo \u201cstranded\u201d at transshipment hubs, leaving Canadian forwarders struggling to secure space to the Middle East.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a briefing last week by Hapag-Lloyd and Port Saint John, one forwarder said \u201cmany in Canada are experiencing challenges securing space to key Middle East destinations until late June to early July.\u201d And the forwarder asked: \u201cWhat concrete steps are being taken to increase routing options and booking availability to improve access for Canadian exporters?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some congestion issues at some of the major ports in Europe, including Tangier, Rotterdam, Antwerp \u2013 and this congestion is real,&#8221; said Hapag-Lloyd\u2019s director of sales Canada, Matt Montanaro.\u00a0\u201cThe reality is that we took the stance that we will not accept bookings if we know your cargo will be stranded at a transshipment port.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe prefer being up front\u2026 giving you the option to book should there be options elsewhere versus taking the booking and then having that box stranded at a terminal, and for which we cannot give you an ETA to final destination,\u201d added Mr. Montanaro.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Hapag-Lloyd said: \u201cThis is a policy specifically for Canada and just to Middle East destinations, so it is not a global policy.&#8221;\u00a0But, he said, Hapag-Lloyd could see the situation \u201cslightly improving\u201d after &#8220;at least another month or so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more in an\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_3eed4382-aeb5-4902-bfec-e888444be989&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyx38cnp6yrb4edu62whecdqpubv8c5r62ttddhp6yyb45nvpyvkm5nu62uv55nh6yvvbd5q6ewtdd5k2uw3fe9u2urvfdtkpawvmd5qpwbbccngqctbk5nhp2wk7dwpq6x3jc5q68tb45w&amp;n=7\" href=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_3eed4382-aeb5-4902-bfec-e888444be989&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyx38cnp6yrb4edu62whecdqpubv8c5r62ttddhp6yyb45nvpyvkm5nu62uv55nh6yvvbd5q6ewtdd5k2uw3fe9u2urvfdtkpawvmd5qpwbbccngqctbk5nhp2wk7dwpq6x3jc5q68tb45w&amp;n=7\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">article from The Loadstar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u201ccautious\u201d Hapag-Lloyd has warned it will not accept bookings if port congestion leaves cargo \u201cstranded\u201d at transshipment hubs, leaving Canadian forwarders struggling to secure space to the Middle East.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":12518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[342],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-12604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-news","tag-hapag-lloyd-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12605,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12604\/revisions\/12605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12604"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=12604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}