container shipping

Some importers are rethinking how to move their products due to the Ever Given’s “very sorry situation.”

Liners are paying historically high rates to charter ships and maximize their exposure to the booming freight market.

U.S. importers will be paying a lot more for annual ocean contracts this year, but pricing inflation has eased.

U.S. maritime regulators are giving ocean carriers and shippers more flexibility to meet contract filing requirements.

Savannah’s record March underscores why it’s investing hundreds of millions on new capacity upgrades.

The Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) is the world’s leading—and most accurate—index of market rates for 40′ containers.

U.S. ports just booked their largest import hikes in memory, according to The McCown Report.

Imports into Los Angeles at not slowing down. Can the backlog be cleared before the peak-season swell begins?

As cargo shippers struggle, container-vessel companies rake in massive profits. Early signals point to record Q1 results.

Container shipping spot rates haven’t budged from COVID-fueled peaks. Cargo shippers’ hopes for a rate pullback are fading.

Days after Ever Given backlog was declared cleared, the number of ships waiting to transit the Suez Canal remains high (with video).

Twenty tons of coke was found aboard an MSC ship in 2019. MSC just revealed that it’s spending $100 million more on security in response.

Bad timing: Still-rising cargo demand is coinciding with container-shipping constraints in the wake of the Suez Canal crisis.

The Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) is the world’s leading—and most accurate—index of market rates for 40′ containers.

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Biden taps Daniel Maffei to head the FMC amid the ongoing port congestion crisis.

Third-party logistics provider GSC Logistics plans to add 100 more drivers and 400 chassis to meet the container volume surge on the West Coast.

Canadian police and border officers seized nearly $8 million in opium found in two shipping containers at the Port of Vancouver and then swapped the drugs with a dummy shipment to let the dragnet continue.

Suez Canal accident aftermath: Extensive disruptions are ahead for key Asia-East Coast container shipping services.

The longer the Suez saga continues, the greater the container, tanker and dry bulk shipping impacts. There could be big losers — and winners.