FreightWaves Flashback: Almost eight years in the Great Bitter Lake
The “trapped” crews found many ways to pass the time, including holding their own Bitter Lake Olympiad, in celebration of the Tokyo Olympics of 1968.
The “trapped” crews found many ways to pass the time, including holding their own Bitter Lake Olympiad, in celebration of the Tokyo Olympics of 1968.
U.S. Customs and the Transportation Security Administration have different programs for preventing explosives from being smuggled onto aircraft in the cargo. A new report recommends ways to further improve security.
An American company has accused foreign ocean carriers of abusing the container market to pad their profits.
Almost no container ships were stuck at anchor when 2020 peak season began. This peak season, terminals are pre-clogged.
Ocean Network Express says the “economic environment is now changing” and it cannot forecast what the rest of 2021 holds, but Hapag-Lloyd can. It expects to triple 2020’s EBITDA.
We have a new winner in the ocean shipping game of “How High Can Rates Go?” — about 15 times higher than before the COVID crisis.
Disparities between container index prices wider than ever after big course correction by Freightos.
The port’s Bayport and Barbours Cut container terminals have been closed as the result of the hardware failure that began at 7 a.m. Tuesday.
Air cargo throughput is expected to continue its upward trend after a strong first-half showing, IATA said.
The Ever Given, stuck in the Suez Canal for six days in March, finally berthed at the Port of Rotterdam on Thursday.
Senate lawmakers find more money for highways and ports in a bipartisan infrastructure package.
The port told customers the hardware failure wasn’t related to a cyberattack.
U.S. shippers this holiday season will need more than Rudolph’s red nose to guide them through the whiteout of congestion.
The union representing thousands of Canada Border Services Agency personnel warns of “significant disruption to the flow of goods” if its members go on strike.
Despite all-time-high container production, demand continues to outpace supply and new box prices keep rising.
The Port of New Orleans recently discharged an international shipment of steel coils from Taiwan to the Port of Caddo-Bossier in Shreveport.
White-label platform raises $2.5 million to bring real-time, guaranteed container rates to global shippers of all sizes.
Matson is adding a seasonal express service to help deal with the upcoming peak shipping season from China. But will it help with freight transportation delays?
JAXPORT saw a 15% increase in container volume and a 20% growth in vehicle volumes for the first three quarters of its 2021 fiscal year, the Florida port said Monday.
Good news for dry bulk shipping stocks, bad news for decarbonization: The global coal trade is thriving.