The Energy Observer is on a seven-year cruise to publicize the role alternative energy could play in the shipping industry.

Ensuring shippers have “chassis choice” for merchant haulage expected to be a prominent issue in the year ahead.

The mayor and city council of Richmond, California, have voted phase out and prohibit the storage and handling of coal and petroleum coke in the city.

As a result of trade agreement signed at the White House on Wednesday, China has pledged to increase imports of American goods and services by at least $200 billion.

The shipping consultants Drewry predicts carriers should be able to return “solid if unspectacular results”in 2020.

The Port of Monroe says its efforts to increase international business has been stymied by the Detroit office of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

California is proposing to require more ships, including tankers and roll-on, roll-off vessels to use shore power when docked.

The U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) has announced more than $7.5 million in grants for nine “marine highway” projects.

California’s effort to restrict owner-operators in trucking would create havoc for farm and forest product exporters, says the Agriculture Transportation Coalition.

The International Longshore and Harbor Workers Union (ILWU) wants a judge to reverse or reduce a $93.6 million jury award against it or order a new trial.

U.S. Rep. Ed Case, D-Hawaii, has introduced three related bills in Congress to modify the Jones Act, saying that the law is “one of the key drivers of our astronomically high cost of living in Hawaii and other locations in our country that are not part of the continental U.S.” The Jones Act is a […]

Two industry groups have announced a program to prevent the accidental release of pre-production plastic pellets.

Matson has taken delivery of the largest container/roll-on, roll-off ship ever built in the U.S.

DP World has been awarded a contract that will result in expansion of a container terminal in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The Department of Justice says a jury has found tanker owner Evridiki Navigation guilty of violating a pollution law, but an appeal is planned.

CMA CGM has finalized agreement to sell 10 terminals to Terminal Link.

Maersk says two of its offices in Brazil were raided, apparently as part of a federal corruption probe.

APM Terminals is selling one of its two large terminals in Rotterdam, but will retain ownership of Maasvlakte II.

A falling trade-to-GDP ratio is a worrying trend for the shipping industry.

California port officials and other speakers sounded the alarm about sea level rise and storm surge.