Oceangoing vessels challenge scale of newly introduced carbon-free power technologies for short-sea shipping and ferries, World Shipping Council CEO John Butler tells U.S. lawmakers.
Few freight forwarders currently offer shipper-owned containers due to the lack of market transparency in their sourcing.
Phase One of the U.S.-China trade deal is scheduled to take effect Wednesday. Read CNBC’s Lori Ann LaRocco’s take on how that trade has changed since the tariff war began — and how it may never be quite the same.
All shipping interests through Panama Canal face new fees as water levels drop to ‘historic’ lows.
“The Box – How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger” by Marc Levinson makes the case that the shipping container and its global intermodal use was one of the most important innovations of the second half of the 20th century.
Tanker rates haven’t shot up further on new Iran tensions, yet they remain extremely high.
The shipping consultants Drewry predicts carriers should be able to return “solid if unspectacular results”in 2020.
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission is required by the 2015 Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Improvements Act to annually adjust its civil penalty amounts in line with inflation.
The Port of Monroe says its efforts to increase international business has been stymied by the Detroit office of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The transport of cargo from China to Europe by sea is likely to remain more important than Eurasian railway routes, says the CEO of the German forwarder DACHSER.
2018 high-water mark for container volumes makes it ever tougher for 2019 to come out on top.
Buttigieg proposal part of candidate’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan.
New Platts indices offer bird’s-eye view of rough IMO 2020 transition for dry bulk.
McLean Trucking is one of the pioneers of the less-than-truckload (LTL) trucking industry. The company’s founder eventually became one of the pioneers of the global logistics and trade industry.
Road, rail, port environmental permits to be completed in two years.
Companies from Amazon to Zulily agree to help Customs and Border Protection figure out how to identify and target high-risk shipments.
Lunar New Year marks traditional ocean shipping slowdown, but U.S.-China trade tiff means extra slack.
There are plenty of individual interests likely to want enforcement of IMO 2020. But is the market incentivizing noncompliance?
Despite all the mergers and all the alliances, ocean container rates are still lower than they were seven years ago.
California is proposing to require more ships, including tankers and roll-on, roll-off vessels to use shore power when docked.
