US manufacturing growth has dropped since the beginning of 2019, constricting freight flow and threatening imports and exports. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The […]

Contract negotiations between ILWU Canada and BCMEA had been underway since before the previous contract expired in March 2018. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com. Waterfront employers in Western […]

About one-quarter of all serious incidents onboard container ships are attributable to mis-declared cargo, according to the Cargo Incident Notification System. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com. Can blockchain […]

Poor finances and structural inefficiencies have impeded technological investments for ocean carriers, resulting in significant setbacks to reaching the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) 2050 emissions reduction […]

The ILWU has asked the Los Angeles City Council to veto the harbor commission’s approval of APM’s construction permit, but since automation at North American ports […]

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Conrail are working on ways to improve fluidity on rail tracks outside the port terminals now […]

A General Rate Increase of between $400 and $500 per TEU on the southbound leg of the Far East to ECSA route is being imposed by […]

Trans-Pac carriers move aggressively to expand weekly service offerings from Southeast Asia in response to 25 percent Trump administration tariffs on imports from China. However, the […]

Slack demand and the ongoing US-China trade war is behind an 11.5 percent drop in spot market freight rates in the past six weeks from China/Hong […]

Port of Halifax officials fear that if the port does not increase its ability to handle big vessels soon that ocean carriers could opt to stop […]