ocean container shipping

COVID container boom continues: Maersk may earn even more this year than in record-trouncing 2021.

The number of ships waiting off Los Angeles/Long Beach fell 23% over the past week.

The FMC is considering minimum billing standards for late fees charged by ocean carriers for picking up and returning containers.

The cost of ship fuel looks like it’s about to topple records set in 2012 and 2008.

Accusations fly as shipping lines rake in billions, but the numbers imply more carrier competition, not less.

Barring an economic downturn, U.S. demand could still be squeezing ports a year from now.

A new export container subsidy at the Port of Oakland received a tepid response from lawmakers pushing for a major overhaul of shipping regulations.

Carrier profits are reaching previously unimaginable heights as supply chain disruptions supercharge gains.

SoCal imports suffering multimonth slide, not because of falling demand, but because of supply chain bottlenecks.

An attack on Ukraine could hike costs for shipowners and cargo shippers across the globe.

Could container shipping and tanker stocks end 2022 very differently than they began it?

For bulk commodity shipping, a rough start to the year. For container shipping, the profit bonanza continues.

No letup yet: It’s taking even longer for Asian exports to get across Pacific to American buyers.

Popular interest in the supply chain may have faded, but the pileup of ships waiting offshore keeps growing.

The leading spokesman in Washington for the world’s container trades offers his take on the implications of potential regulatory changes in 2022.

New barometer from NY Federal Reserve highlights how extreme supply chain crunch has become.

How could the consensus — that container spot rates will remain extremely high — be wrong?

MSC sues Deere, patent owner sues six shipping lines, box-overboard cases pile up, and Hanjin’s ghost tries to collect.

There has never been a year like this for container shipping. Here are the biggest stories of 2021.

After an exceptional year for ocean shipping, the data points to more action ahead in 2022.