Two major articles in the space of a few weeks. Different angles, but clearly the same underlying problem. The first looked at #emptycontainer repositioning overwhelming European ports, particularly the Port of Rotterdam. The volume of extra moves is reducing port fluidity and efficiency. The second, published this week in JOC.com, identifies landside infrastructure as "container shipping's next great chokepoint". The newbuilding pipeline for ultra-large vessels has already outpaced the berths being built to receive them. Vessels continue to get bigger. Carriers continuing add more containers to service the trade lanes. But ports, berths, and landside connections take years and billions to build. Infrastructure is seemingly always playing catch-up, and the gap is expanding. One consequence is more empty containers circulating through a system already at capacity. Empties are not the cause. They are an unnecessary inefficiency that adds strain on top of strain. The answer is not more containers. It is containers that do more. #COLLAPSECON #stopshippingair #container #shipping #portinfrastructure @spectainer joc.com/article/landside-inf…

✴️ Shippers define responsibility upstream. Procurement, manufacturing emissions, labour standards. These are measured, governed, and disclosed through ESG frameworks. Once products ship, responsibility narrows... 🚛 Shipping and logistics are treated as execution, not consequence. Containers are used, delivered, and returned. When cargo is discharged, the transaction is considered complete. But containers keep moving. Often empty. Costs and emissions accumulate. Imbalance compounds. This sits outside the shipper’s definition of responsibility. 📊 This is structural. Logistics is treated as neutral. Movement is background, not accountability. If responsibility ends at delivery while the container continues circulating, what part of the supply chain is actually being governed? 📄 This essay, The Other Half of the Supply Chain, explores that blind spot, and why responsibility in global trade can no longer stop halfway. 👉 Read here: nicholaspress.substack.com/p… #shipping #container #CSR #sustainability

Sunday in the sun ☀️ #COLLAPSECON containers standing proud.

After 2-3 years of lock downs and closed borders, it is exciting to be heading back to @IntermodalEU. I am greatly looking forward to reconnecting with, and hearing from, many industry experts, as well as joining one of the discussion panels. Come say hi to us @Spectainer

There is a solution that can reduce the impact of #container imbalance however, like every industry, we need real leadership to drive operational, economic and environmental change. #collapsecon #collapsiblecontainers @spectainer – at Sydney, New South Wales

As we move into the next stage of commercialisation, I think back to the early days when we were first started developing #COLLAPSECON. This is Gertrude, our very first mini container that we built to test the overall collapsing concept. #r&d #innovation #shippingcontainer

DYK that ~43% of all shipping #containers leave Australia empty. #COLLAPSECON by @spectainer can reduce the waste, inefficiency and environmental impact. – at Sydney, New South Wales

I have been a but quiet lately... but for good reason. Introducing @spectainer. Spectainer has acquired CEC Systems and with an amazing team in place, we are looking forward to getting #COLLAPSECON out into the market!