Chris Dupin

Chris Dupin has written about trade and transportation and other business subjects for a variety of publications before joining American Shipper and Freightwaves.
Sep - 2018 -
06 September
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Amazon orders 20,000 Mercedes-Benz vans

Sprinter vans will be used by the growing fleet of contractors making final-mile package deliveries.

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05 September
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MSC hikes rates for cargo from Asia to U.S., Canada

Shipping company says it will advise customers of “exact amount” of price increases closer to October.

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British court rules in DP World’s favor

Dubai-controlled firm wins another round in ongoing fight with Djibouti over control of a container terminal.

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04 September
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ILA will vote on contract Thursday

Union president calls for ratification of the six-year agreement, lauded as its best ever.

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‘World trade is cooling off’

BIMCO and Kuehne + Nagel say tariff disputes are starting to take a toll on container shipping.

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Shippers’ Law: Manufacturing or transportation?

Grafton & Upton Railroad unloads wood pellets at its Massachusetts facility and represses broken pellets into whole ones before transferring them to trucks.

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Aug - 2018 -
31 August
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Port of Oakland heralds cleaner air

Despite an increase in cargo volumes, diesel particulate emissions are down 81 percent since 2005.

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MPC reports second-quarter growth

Containership charterer says tariffs are a risk, but “forecasts suggest world trade will grow by 4.8 percent in 2018.”

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30 August
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COSCO: Slim profit for first half

Chinese carrier says result was hard won and partly attributable to its terminal business.

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29 August
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More carriers embracing scrubbers, LNG

More than 2,000 scrubbers are expected to be in use by 2020 and LNG is gaining ground as a fuel in deep sea shipping.

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DrayNow raises $5 million

Focused on intermodal haulage, the company aims to open the market to more small truckers.

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27 August
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Shippers feel transpacific squeeze

Peak season, tariffs and discontinued services result in tight capacity and rising freight rates.

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Hawaiian ports quickly reopen

Matson and Pasha resume full operations in the wake of Hurricane Lane.

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Port of Los Angeles cuts pollution

Emissions reduced while container volume reached an all-time high.

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23 August
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MSC leasing SeaCube containers

Two thousand units will feature Carrier Transicold’s environmentally friendly NaturalLine refrigeration units.

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Tariff tides may turn reshoring

Tax and regulatory cuts boosted the return of manufacturing jobs to American shores, but a trade war could change that.

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Maersk boosts use of NYSHEX

Carrier joins others offering transpacific contracts on New York Shipping Exchange.

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22 August
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ZIM reports second-quarter loss

Company carried 17 percent more containers, but freight rates were lower and the cost of fuel and charters was higher.

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21 August
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Maersk testing Arctic waters

Ship will make a trial voyage along the north coast of Russia.

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New NVOCC rules take effect Wednesday

FMC says amendments to regulations governing NRAs and NSAs aim to make them more attractive to shippers and carriers.

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