Exporters at the annual meeting of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition lament lack of visibility and carrier accountability and the disappearance of telephones.
Washington’s container ports are looking to incent marine terminals to open at off-peak hours for trucks in preparation for the peak shipping season. The move underscores how U.S. ports are hoping to prevent a repeat of last year’s well-documented container congestion. The Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA), which oversees the ports of Seattle and Tacoma, said […]
Suezmax tankers can carry half as much crude as VLCCs, but now command twice the VLCC rate.
The blast occurred Tuesday in the engine room of the M/V VF Tanker-16 and caused three other crew members to go to the hospital, Volga Shipping Company said.
Scale and critical mass matter to transshipment hubs, but location and inland connectivity are more important to gateway terminals, said Drewry’s Neil Davidson.
A new report says additive manufacturing may negatively affect transportation industry’s revenues.
The ship left Malaysia’s Port of Tanjung Pelepas on June 1 with 19,284 TEUs onboard, surpassing the total of 19,190 TEUs loaded on the MOL Tribute in February.
Shipping line’s announcement says the chief financial officer since 2015 will “take over new projects in Chile.”
The 8,469-TEU CMA CGM Dalila arrived Wednesday as part of the carrier’s Pacific Express 3 service.
The Port of Los Angeles saw May container volumes grow at their best year-to-date level since January, even as empty containers still account for most of the growth. To keep volumes going, the seaport’s employees will face a changing workplace in the coming years as new technologies improve cargo fluidity, the port’s executive director said. […]
Nicholas Press, Founder and President of CEC Systems, explores the maritime industry’s problem with empty containers and explores potential solutions to deal with them.
International shipping has become one of the largest drivers of domestic shipping volumes in the United States over the past several years. Knowing when and where container volumes are moving can be a leading indicator of when domestic shipping volumes are going to create disruptions in the U.S. freight market. FreightWaves continues to add more […]
The agreement — also signed by Russian Direct Investment Fund, Rosatom and Norilsk Nickel — outlines a study of the commercial options for the use of the NSR.
Millions of tons of cargo, inducing U.S. grains, remain stuck due to flooding.
Fiscal year-to-date TEU volume at the two container terminals is up 9.7%.
Maersk is building a cold storage facility for bananas as well as refrigerated and frozen products in St. Petersburg.
Developers are poised to bring new software to the ocean shipping sector. What will work and what will not?
The exact cause is still unknown, but initial reports found the schooner turned in front of the Astrosprinter in the Elbe River, according to a German radio station.
Aymeric Chandovoine is promoted, Criss Edwards is hired and Justin Renfro assumes company leadership.
Autonomous shipping is slowly gaining greater attention in the maritime industry, prompting more industry players to figure out where they will fit in what may be the future of ocean freight. As FreightWaves reported, Norwegian fertilizer manufacturer Yara International is still about a year away from testing and operating a fully autonomous container ship, the […]
