Maritime

If U.S. crude output were to lose momentum, it would be felt by tanker owners much more so than before.

To prepare for ultra-large containerships, the port revises the plan last updated in 1990.

While NWSA reported a record first half, June volumes were mixed — down for international containers but up for domestic traffic.

The new functionality will be available beginning July 27 and will allow the electronic consolidation of informal entry summaries to be processed in the express consignment environment.

Dockworkers will be trained to repair automated cargo-handling equipment they argued would take their jobs.

APM Terminals reached a deal with the longshore union at the Port of Los Angeles to retrain dock workers in repairing the automated cargo handling equipment that will take their jobs. The deal further paves the way for the Maersk subsidiary to start a project to install electrical charging stations and to make other upgrades […]

Declaring an undervalue on imported watercraft has triggered demands for millions of dollars in duty from the authorities. Experts say customs authorities will, in future, only become more efficient… and aggressive.

East Coast ports controlled nearly half of all US TEU traffic last year, JLL report says

Critics of the proposed location for an Oakland Athletics baseball stadium point to a study that says the Howard Terminal site will be needed for cargo.

It’s hard to blame the skeptics, given what has happened in the past, but dry bulk freight rates are getting pretty impressive.

“Rest assured our commitment to achieving our financial targets is unwavering and has never been stronger,” says CFO Rob Knight.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has proposed delaying two provisions in its entry-level driver training rule until February 2022.

Tiny landlocked kingdom on the eastern edge of the Himalayas moves aggregate via the Brahmaputra River.

Hapag-Lloyd, Yang Ming, Ocean Network Express, COSCO and OOCL will begin service in October.

The South Carolina Port Authority (SCPA) said ocean container moves were up 9 percent in its fiscal year, setting a volume record for the port.  The Port of Charleston’s two main container terminals, Wando Welch and North Charleston, saw 2.4 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) in container moves last year.  The region’s freight moves represent […]

The Federal Maritime Commission will monitor the transparency of bunker-adjustment factor formulas as the IMO low-sulfur fuel mandate looms, Chairman Michael Khouri said.

The oil tanker industry is nearly 130 years old, having first been developed in 1890 by the founder of Shell. Now the industry may be entering its twilight if, and only if, the world switches to using less oil in the long term, according to Maritime Strategies International. In a report commissioned by the philanthropy […]

A simmering industrial dispute in Australia burst into fire this morning when maritime box terminal operator DP World Australia used local media to threaten longshoremen with job losses. Strikes confirmed at Sydney, Fremantle and Brisbane.

Sudden surge in marine fuel costs could spur shippers to consider switch to California over Panama Canal route.

Busiest port in the world, Shanghai, may have to deal with tropical storm-related delays