maritime shipping
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Asia-Pacific
Flashback Friday: a short history of the Panama Canal
Flashback Friday looks at the history of the Panama Canal, which is not only an engineering marvel, but a boon…
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Economics
Unpaid Coast Guard workforce slows maritime business
Financial transactions within the U.S. maritime sector - including vessel loans and project eligibility - are on hold waiting for…
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News
Today’s Pickup: the trade war is here
$200B of tariffs imposed on Chinese imports today; the 4PL era is here; China cancels further trade talks; Germany’s maritime…
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Maritime
Steam Logistics brings brokerage mentality to freight forwarding
Steam Logistics, one of the fastest growing companies in the United States, is a young Chattanooga-based international freight forwarder on…
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Blockchain
CargoX CEO: smart contracts reduced BoL transfer time to 4 minutes
CargoX used a smart contract-powered bill of lading to reduce transfer and payment times to four minutes. FreightWaves spoke with…
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Canada
Today’s pickup: Maersk warns on IMO2020, and throws up some sails to help
Maersk is taking notice of the coming regulation that will impact the quality of the fuel burned on ships, and…
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Maritime
Container shipping rates get boost on trade shifts, tariffs and capacity cuts
US East Coast ports such as Charleston are seeing double-digit growth.
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Maritime
The shipbreaking industry where workers die on the shores of Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, the shipbreaking industry is booming business - but at the cost of the lives of workers, who work…
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Economics
Key takeaways from Stifel’s deep dive on trade war risk
Stifel’s super-team of equities analysts took a hard look at trade war risk for carriers in every mode and various…
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