Channel
@freightforwardingstories
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268subscribers
+54 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1002122384904 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @freightforwardingstories |
| Created | Between 1 November 2023 and 31 May 2024 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/freightforwardingstories |
Other / unclassifiable — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 23 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Sept 2026, 21:18 | 268 | +48 |
| 5 Sept 2026, 21:39 | 220 | -2 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 12:53 | 222 | +6 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 07:08 | 216 | +2 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 03:32 | 214 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 20:45 | 214 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 18 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 6 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
17 reactions across 5 posts, in 4 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 52.9% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 9 | 52.9% | |
| 👍 | 4 | 23.5% | |
| 🤬 | 2 | 11.8% | |
| 🥴 | 2 | 11.8% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 6 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 17 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 18 July 2026 to 6 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
⭕📦Cargo Theft Grows More Costly: $725M in Losses Last Year According to Verisk CargoNet, cargo theft losses in the US and Canada reached nearly $725 million in 2025 — a 60% increase year-over-year. The average value per stolen load rose to $273,990 (+36%). The main driver behind this growth is a shift by criminals from classic theft toward schemes involving forged driver documents and cyberattacks on carrier and br…
📊Key figures of the week 🤩Shanghai set a daily throughput record — 203,881 TEU (+9%). 🤩Drewry index fell for a third straight week — to $4,255 per 40-ft container (-3%). 🤩South Korea invests KRW 772.4bn in Gwangyang port automation (1.36m TEU). 🤩SCI (India) launched a tender for 6 containerships of 8,000 TEU each. 🤩ID Logistics: H1 revenue — €2.08bn. 🤩MSC filed a lawsuit against CargoLoop for $273,000 over improper …
🇨🇳Shanghai Record Amid Falling Freight Rates The Port of Shanghai set a new record on August 1, handling 203,881 TEU in a single day — nearly 9% above the previous record of 187,312 TEU. This marks the first time the world's busiest container port has surpassed the 200,000 TEU-per-day mark. 📉At the same time, container spot freight rates have declined for a third consecutive week — on both the transpacific and Asia…
🔴Carriers Revise Freight Rates MSC has announced new Freight All Kinds (FAK) rates for the Far East to North Europe, Mediterranean, and Black Sea trades. This is the latest in a series of tariff revisions amid the volatile conditions of the container shipping market. Maersk, meanwhile, has implemented temporary fuel surcharges on inland transportation in Spain, Portugal, and France. These surcharges will be effec…
Road conditions can change instantly😄 Wishing you a profitable weekend and safe driving 🐘 -- Дорожня ситуація може змінитися миттєво😄 Бажаємо вигідних вихідних і обережності за кермом 🐘
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🌟 Containership Fleet Expands as Shipowner Margins Narrow New containership orders have reached an all-time high, while shipowners' profitability continues to narrow. According to the Global Container Shipping Outlook 2026, global container transport demand remained resilient in the first quarter. Terminals and integrated logistics solutions are emerging as the primary buffer against ocean freight rate volatility. …
🇺🇸U.S. Escalates Tariff Pressure on Canada and Brazil Effective July 22, 2026, a new 25% tariff applies to select imports from Brazil. An additional 50% tariff on certain Canadian goods, under Section 338 of the Trade Act of 1930, takes effect August 19. ℹ️ Supply chain stakeholders are advised to review product classifications, shipment timing, and available exemptions as implementation guidance continues to devel…
📈New Tariffs Amidst an Export Crisis Due to port blockades, agricultural producers and steelmakers are facing difficulties in exporting their products, which is impacting the country's foreign exchange earnings. Additional pressure on exports is being exerted by the CBAM environmental tax, EU quotas, high energy prices, and labor shortages at enterprises. Against this backdrop, the government has decided to incre…
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🤝 Hormuz Strait: first talks on restarting shipping Iran and Oman are negotiating a restart of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. 78 ships passed through in the last 24 hours — down from ~100/day before the war, but up from fewer than 10 a week ago. Oil reacted sharply: Brent dropped over 11% in a day — the biggest fall since April. The strait has been closed to commercial shipping since late February. A deal w…
⛔️Customs Boomerang: US Tariffs Bring an Early End to the Logistics Season New US customs tariffs triggered an artificial peak season between May and July, which has now come to an abrupt halt. Importers' warehouses are overstocked, demand is falling, and global freight rates (particularly on transpacific routes) have already declined by 4–6%. To curb the price collapse, ocean carriers are urgently cutting capaci…
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❌China Bans Dual-Use Exports to 14 European Companies China has banned dual-use exports to 14 European companies, including German defense giant Rheinmetall AG, Czech firm Tatra Trucks and Polish company Vigo Photonics. Beijing's Commerce Ministry said the move responds to the EU's 21st sanctions package against Russia, which included Chinese firms. Foreign organizations are also barred from supplying these compani…
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @freightforwardingstories. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Named by 1 registered channel — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
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Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 12 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Freight Forwarding Stories” (@freightforwardingstories), 268 subscribers as measured 12 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/freightforwardingstories.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.