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More than 2,900 containers have gone overboard just since the end of November.

Air crews don’t like flying to Hong Kong these days because COVID testing there is invasive and they could end up in mass quarantine facilities. UPS pilots are testing a new rapid antigen test that could alert them in time to stay out of Hong Kong.

Mud dauber wasps in Australia are setting up home inside pieces of sensitive aircraft equipment. It’s more than a nuisance. It could be dangerous.

“We have really a perfect storm of demand that’s surging like there’s no tomorrow, everybody needing to get the boxes back, COVID-related restrictions,” says Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen.

Star Bulk and Golden Ocean have recently acquired almost $1 billion in ships between them as they seek more exposure to the dry bulk market.

Six cases of at-sea container losses have been reported in less than three months.

“If we do nothing, we will still have vessels at anchor come midsummer,” says Port of LA Executive Director Gene Seroka.

Cargo shippers hamstrung by the global container shortage should not expect a box building spree in China to come to their rescue.

The Federal Maritime Commission is stepping up oversight of charges imposed on trucking companies and U.S. exporters by containership companies.

You’ve probably flown in a Boeing 737-800, a next-generation variant of this popular 737, but when they are put to pasture they become valuable assets for all-cargo airlines. ASL Airlines in Europe is snapping some up and converting them to freighters.

The U.S. has indicted a computer hacker working for Pyongyang to help North Korea evade U.S. maritime sanctions.

The United States and Canada should do more talking and less unilateral banning and canceling.

It’s not just container stocks rising. Shipping stocks are up for everything from bulkers to tankers to gas carriers.

Amazon is an e-commerce rocket ship. Making those deliveries possible is Amazon Air, which is growing so fast it could make it possible for more people to receive orders within a day.

Preeti Pande, the hydrogen solution provider’s chief marketing officer, comes with extensive fuel cell industry experience and a Ph.D.

More venture capital flowing to maritime tech startups – and more shipping companies giving those startups a trial run.

The U.N. and World Health Organization are working hard to make sure less-developed countries get their fair share as more vaccine supplies become available. Transportation and logistics is a big part of their organizing effort.

2005: Airbus is ready to break Boeing’s 30-year monopoly on making large passenger aircraft.

The logistics of getting flowers from warm growing climates to people’s doorsteps is complex. Airlines play a big role.

Ocean carriers as airlines? No one thought an online retailer would own a private airline until Amazon did it. The ocean carrier also owns a logistics company. You connect the dots.