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DHL Express is one of Atlas Air’s biggest customers. It just renewed leases for 20 planes.

Container ships named The Brady, The Belichick and The Gronk just sold for six to eight times their purchase price, spurring a nine-figure payday.

August was a record month for the Port of Virginia in Norfolk, and the trend of higher year-over-year volumes could persist through the rest of 2021 as peak season approaches.

The Ever Ace is at nearly 24,000 TEUs, but ports may not be able to handle that much capacity.

Nicholas made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane in Texas Tuesday morning, bringing high winds and torrential rainfall.

Dry bulk and LNG shipping stocks now at 52-week peaks with container stocks not far from the top.

A messy leadership change is underway at all-cargo airline Amerijet.

U.S. agribusiness exporters claim they are poised to lose 22% of sales due to massive increases in container shipping rates.

Container terminals will cease ingate operations and remain closed through Tuesday morning.

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Slync.io launches integrated strategy for ocean containers; chip shortage continues to impact Mexico’s commercial truck industry; automotive parts supplier invests $102M in Mexico expansion; and Aeronet Worldwide opens operations in San Antonio.

National Tree Co. tells American Shipper it is warning customers not to sit on their wallets until Black Friday because the items they are coveting might already be sold out.

Demand for container ships is so extreme that some operators are paying unprecedented sums to rent them.

Two of China’s main ports are preparing for the arrival of Typhoon Chanthu, which could slam Taiwan first.

Used Airbus A321s are getting a second life in the cargo arena. More companies are jumping in to do the modifications.

Mammoth Freighters has deep pockets and ambitious goals for selling converted passenger planes for cargo operations.

An FMC advisory committee has been formed amid ongoing shipper complaints of carrier market power abuse.

In unprecedented move, CMA CGM unilaterally halts rate increases until February amid rising global supply chain chaos.

The Port of Long Beach has broken monthly cargo records 13 of the past 14 months.

The Vancouver transload facility will primarily handle fast-moving consumer goods and auto parts.

In the pandemic era, passenger travel can be especially fickle. Air Wisconsin will try its hand at cargo so it has more revenue opportunities.