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COVID container boom continues: Maersk may earn even more this year than in record-trouncing 2021.

The Port of Savannah has seen monthly port records for the past 18 months.

A.P. Moller – Maersk announced the $1.8 billion acquisition of U.S. forwarder Pilot Freight Services. The deal is the company’s latest move in building out a land-based logistics network.

January marks the 11th consecutive month of year-over-year container records, according to SC Ports.

Donald Trump claimed his trade war got the Chinese to bend to U.S. will. But the “historic” trade deal he negotiated didn’t turn out so well.

The number of ships waiting off Los Angeles/Long Beach fell 23% over the past week.

DHL is renewing every aircraft lease it can because air cargo demand is robust.

Value Maritime has developed a system to capture carbon onboard vessels, fill up CO2 batteries and use the captured carbon dioxide in greenhouses.

DHL, seemingly in perpetual expansion mode, is targeting two more U.S. airports for its giant cargo network.

Traxens CEO David Marchand says that “known port congestion is only the tip of the iceberg.”

The FMC is considering minimum billing standards for late fees charged by ocean carriers for picking up and returning containers.

The cost of ship fuel looks like it’s about to topple records set in 2012 and 2008.

No. 7 on FreightWaves’ 2022 FreightTech 25 is landing $935 million in a series E round led by Andreessen Horowitz and MSD Partners.

FedEx operates about 280 small, turboprop cargo aircraft. New ones starting to enter the fleet are bigger and more capable.

AskWaves dives into the potential benefits and drawbacks of using blue hydrogen on the path to green hydrogen.

FedEx is facilitating exports from Europe and the U.K. to the U.S. with a new cargo service.

Swissport, a company that gets your luggage on and off a plane for partner airlines, is fending off a ransomware attack.

Bipartisan legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate would give maritime regulators power to shift the carrier-shipper balance.

In this exclusive interview with American Shipper, the port envoy to the White House Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force discusses the state of the ports, the challengers at hand and the outlook for the future.

Accusations fly as shipping lines rake in billions, but the numbers imply more carrier competition, not less.