All articles tagged with “Container Dwell”.
Stonepeak's rail-served facility in Fort Worth is another piece in a larger infrastructure consolidation play. The private equity firm's simultaneous $2.4 billion CMA CGM terminal joint venture gives it a hand in nine port terminals across North America. For Canadian forwarders, the question is whether consolidated terminal ownership translates to higher detention fees and squeezed drayage windows.
Q4 dwell isn't the warehouse's problem alone—it's the cost carrier, and every delay compounds the hit. Capacity planning starts in May, dock slots lock by August, and by November you're running operations, not firefighting.
Port of Montreal is seeing longer vessel delays and extended container dwell as global maritime capacity tightens. Detention charges accelerate, drayage windows narrow, and dock-to-stock pressure mounts. Here's what Canadian importers and forwarders are dealing with right now.
Tensions around the Strait of Hormuz have carriers routing around the Cape of Good Hope instead of transiting Suez, adding roughly 14 days to India-Europe voyages. For Canadian importers sourcing from Asia, that ripple hits the dock hard: longer container dwell, bunched arrivals, crushed cross-dock cutoffs, and detention costs that stack before cargo even arrives at Port of Montreal.