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24/09/2026

India recorded 4,219 port calls in August 2026.

The leading commercial manager was JSW Shipping & Logistics Pvt with 274 calls -- 6.5% of national traffic. JSW is the captive shipping arm of an industrial conglomerate, not a third-party principal.

It is not an outlier. Several of India's top commercial and technical managers are in-house logistics arms of ports, cement makers, and industrial groups.

For ship agents and suppliers, that means a meaningful share of India's addressable market requires a different relationship and a different pitch than a classic liner account.

Download the India Port Traffic Report for Aug 2026: https://magicport.ai/resources/port-traffic-reports/india

21/09/2026

South Korea recorded 7,537 port calls in August 2026 -- up 10.3% from July.

Two ports took nearly a third of that volume: Busan (1,275 calls, 16.9%) and Kwangyang (1,123 calls, 14.9%). They are not the same market. Busan is container-led. Kwangyang is tanker-led. Different vessel mix, different principals, different service requirements.

For ship agents and suppliers, if you are not established in both, you are outside the room for nearly a third of South Korea's traffic.

Download the South Korea Port Traffic Report for Aug 2026: https://magicport.ai/resources/port-traffic-reports/south-korea

17/09/2026

Roughly 80% of the traffic through Singapore's ports in August was international vessels passing through.

That is what pure transshipment and bunkering volume looks like, and it is a coordination-heavy environment: a different counterparty, principal, and paperwork standard on almost every call, not a repeat customer base you already know.

Tanker also overtook Bulk Carrier and Container as the largest vessel category (30.8% share, up 41.3% to 1,946 calls), a shift worth reflecting in service and staffing plans.

Download the Singapore Port Traffic Report for Aug 2026: https://magicport.ai/resources/port-traffic-reports/singapore

15/09/2026

China recorded 24,455 port calls in August, up 7.8%. But Container calls fell 6.8% to 5,378, while Bulk Carrier rose 7.6% to 6,505 and became the largest category (26.6% share).

That mix shift matters operationally. Bulk carriers sit in port more than twice as long as container ships — 47 hours median versus 21. More time on the berth means more provisioning, husbandry, and paperwork per call, not less.

Bohai Ferry Group Co Ltd led all commercial managers with 518 calls, and China Oilfield Services Ltd led technical managers with 454 — useful names to know if you are chasing new principals in Chinese ports this quarter.

Download the China Port Traffic Report for Aug 2026: https://magicport.ai/resources/port-traffic-reports/china

08/09/2026

An agent checks the principal before confirming a nomination. A supplier checks a credit limit before releasing an order. A sanctions screen takes the same two minutes, most parties are not yet in the habit of running it alongside the others.​

Skip it, and the cost shows up later. ​

Read the full piece: https://magicport.ai/resources/blog/two-minutes-for-a-sanctions-check-now-or-weeks-unwinding-it-later-36

03/09/2026

The August 2026 edition of the MagicPort Port Traffic Report is now available. Each monthly report breaks down vessel arrivals, vessel type mix, port stay duration, and voyage legs for a specific country.

Coverage now spans 30+ key maritime markets, from major hubs like Singapore and the United Kingdom to a growing list of secondary markets like Vietnam, Brazil, and more. Download the reports here: https://magicport.ai/resources/port-traffic-reports

Every report is powered by MagicPort Maritime Intelligence, drawing on the same vessel tracking data our platform uses for sanctions screening and voyage analytics.

03/09/2026

Manually creating a Final Disbursement Account (FDA) takes hours. ​

Our Port Call Management solution builds your FDAs straight from the services already logged. Select, confirm, done. ​

Less time reconciling. Fewer disputed invoices. Faster job close-out.​

Request a demo:​ https://magicport.ai/solutions/smart-port-call-management

27/08/2026

Most ship agencies still manually produce the Statement of Facts, Cargo Manifest, and Bill of Lading, which are labor-intensive and prone to errors.​

Our Port Call Management solution pulls data straight from the job record and generate all three, ready to send.​

Request a demo:​ https://magicport.ai/solutions/smart-port-call-management

25/08/2026

Port traffic shifts fast. Congestion at one port, a change in vessel type mix at another. Most operators still track this through scattered sources and outdated data.

MagicPort now publishes free monthly Port Traffic Reports covering vessel arrivals, vessel type mix, port stay duration, and voyage legs.

Browse the reports for the markets that matter to you: https://magicport.ai/resources/port-traffic-reports

Powered by MagicPort Maritime Intelligence, so you are working from current data, not guesswork.

24/08/2026

How much of your team's time goes to chasing PDAs, re-sending invoices, and clarifying charges over email? Most ship agencies have never actually measured it. ​

This calculator puts a number on it in under two minutes.

Calculate what manual port call coordination is costing your agency in salary terms. Specific to your volume and staff costs - not industry averages. Free tool for ship agencies.