Shipping

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Long-term contract rates are at record highs. Shipping lines hold all the cards at the negotiating table.

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 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.

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

China’s biggest holiday used to have a dramatic impact on U.S. transportation and the flow of goods. Now it seems more of an afterthought.

“International collaboration is essential to decarbonize global supply chains. It’s time to get started on this important work,” said Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles.

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

Shipping analysts rethink outlooks on crude and product tanker rates: already grim market appears even grimmer.

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

Supply chain disruptions are blamed for mixed results at Gulf Coast ports.

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.

Premium experiences, mobile access and fast delivery are among the keys to driving e-commerce sales, two new surveys find.

Shares of Zim are flirting with a new peak while shares of ship-leasing, dry bulk and tanker companies lose ground.

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