Maritime

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 Ever Given, stuck in the Suez Canal for six days in March, finally berthed at the Port of Rotterdam on Thursday.

Supply chain congestion is more about issues with throughput among various stakeholders and less about Norfolk Southern’s ability to handle volumes, executives said during NS’ second-quarter 2021 earnings call Wednesday.

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.

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.

Griff Lynch, the Georgia Ports Authority’s executive director, doesn’t expect another growth spike and says he’ll be happy to maintain current volume levels.

APM Terminals on the U.S. Gulf Coast wants potential importing customers to know it has access to the Midwest via five Class I railroads.

Shanghai, the largest container port in the world, has stopped operations because of a big storm.

Exports of liquefied natural gas, agricultural commodities and crude oil led the way during first half of 2021.

Americans were expected to divert disposable income away from goods as the economy reopened to travel, lodging and entertainment. It isn’t happening, most observers say, and the supply chain implications are profound.

Vietnam is the newest epicenter for supply chain chaos. Manufacturing and port activity have been cut by new COVID precautions.

An environmental report demands zero-emission shipping by 2030 and rejects LNG as an alternative, while urging more transparent emissions reporting.