Maritime

China’s zero-COVID policy is a prescription for more inflation and supply chain “illness.”

The pain at the pump keeps getting worse. Bad news for consumers. Good news for owners of refined product tankers.

U.S. regulators have ordered the world’s largest ocean carriers to submit more pricing and capacity data to help protect shipping markets from anticompetitive practices.

Trucking solutions, sitting cargo are among the issues in Henan province’s capital city.

‘Right now, we don’t see a huge buildup of volumes because of the closedown in Shanghai,’ reports Maersk CEO Soren Skou.

New container prices, new production, lease rates, lease durations and used container prices are all down.

Expeditors suffered a serious cyberattack in the first quarter, with a loss of volume, but still managed to make more money than the first quarter of 2021.

Container-ship transits of the Panama Canal are up as liners favor the East Coast. LNG transits are down as U.S. gas heads to Europe.

Craig Fuller explains the impact of higher diesel prices on the U.S. economy and consumers.

“Higher shipping costs hit prices of imported goods at the dock within two months and quickly pass through to producer prices — many of whom rely on imported inputs to manufacture their goods,” IMF researchers wrote.

“The only reason for an oil tanker to go to Saldanha Bay is to unload the oil into storage,” says an industry consultant.

Gulf Coast ports got a boost in March from imports of steel and plywood, and exports of petroleum and crude oil.

New reports from Maersk, Kuehne+Nagel and Drewry point to an ongoing boom for container shipping lines.

COVID lockdowns in major Chinese cities are bottling up freight shipments, but the full impact on global trade won’t be clear until this summer.

China’s zero-COVID measures will make it harder for European exports to reach the East Coast because empty containers aren’t getting where they’re needed.

Retail stock pickers seem increasingly nervous about shipping. Shares of dry bulk, tanker, container and mixed-fleet owners all fell.

FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller writes about the impact of Chinese lockdowns on global supply chains and the U.S. trucking industry.

The Shanghai lockdown isn’t following the same supply chain script as the big Chinese disruptions of 2020 and 2021.

GTI Transport Solutions announced Thursday the acquisition of container transport provider Foxconn Logistics.

The movement of materials and finished products between China and its key Asian suppliers is taking a big hit — and the ramifications will be felt around the world.