American Shipper

E-commerce and coronavirus fallout are buoying container services from Asia to the West Coast.

Search underway for gunmen after prospective employee is slain in Jacksonville.

TV news reports at least one person critically injured at facility in Jacksonville, Florida.

CIO Claas Matthies is tasked by SAL Heavy Lift with implementing a digital strategy to streamline and improve the financial outcome for one of the most complex forms of ocean transport – project cargoes.

Long Beach mayor taps ILWU officer Bobby Olvera Jr. to serve as commissioner.

The hot topics you may have missed this week.

HC-130 Hercules aircraft deployed on mission covering a 4,000-square-mile area.

South Carolina Ports Authority adopts financial plan for fiscal year 2021.

Long-term institutional investors still steer clear of shipping shares — with good reason.

Lufthansa is too big to fail in Germany. Now it has a bailout.

Shipments of 3,000 to 4,000 pounds of Florida strawberries make their way to Germany via Boeing 707 jets.

United Airlines and Delta are dipping their toes back into the China market. But with COVID-19 and political tensions rising it won’t be a surprise if they are stopped again.

The Cuban invasion force was to land under the cover of night to begin a counter-revolution against Cuba’s communist government, but the operation unraveled in hours as the invasion fleet floundered in the Bay of Pigs.

The new class of container ships is part of HMM’s quest to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Big cargo planes are dumping cargo faster than O’Hare, LAX and other airports can process it. That could mean a longer wait for your new favorite gadget.

EU e-commerce regulation will bring “one of the most impactful changes.”

For years, exporters and importers have been frustrated by the former U.S. Customs and Border Protection process to withhold their names and addresses in manifest data from the public.

Tanker rates have plunged as predicted. How long until a recovery?

Details surrounding the incident are sketchy as rescuers are dispatched.

New DHL Express facility will benefit shippers across southern Germany with European and international freight deliveries.