It's said that the United States Congress can't work together. It's said that Democrats and Republicans can't agree on anything – that all they do is fight with each other. If that's the rule, [...]
Last week, President Biden announced his intention to nominate Ann Phillips as Administrator of the United States Maritime Administration at the Department of Transportation. According to the [...]
Right now, there are a few governmental moves concerning international shipping that should pique U.S. shippers' interest. First, the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) voted to proceed with two [...]
Over the last year, international shipping has been marked by container and equipment shortages, port congestion, high demand, lost containers, rolled containers, and – of course – outrageously [...]
This is staggering. Over 3,000 shipping containers fell into the Pacific Ocean last winter, Tim Lydon reports in the Revelator. We're not talking about all shipping containers lost throughout the [...]
There are three international shipping news stories making headlines this week that shippers should know about. These are the kind of stories that affect U.S. importers and exporters' bottom [...]
As the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach hit record volumes of imports for March and freight rates reached a new peak, experts are telling us that the days of overcapacity, and the lower [...]
It was hoped the high freight rates we've been seeing for about a year now in the international shipping industry would finally start easing back down at this point; however, it appears reprieve [...]
The way ocean freight rates have skyrocketed in 2020 and into 2021, it became expected that the big U.S. shippers – the beneficial cargo owners (BCOs) of the world like Walmart, Target, Best Buy, [...]
We continue today with a series taking a deep dive into the outlook of international shipping in 2021. Part 1 focused on high ocean freight rates, cargo volume trends, and the potential for a [...]
Mark the International Maritime Organization (IMO) down as the latest international shipping industry player to be hit by cyber attack. There are no indicators to say the cyber attack on the [...]
Cyber attack is back in international shipping news this week, as CMA CGM became the latest major ocean freight carrier to fall victim to this disturbing trend. All the Top Ocean Carriers [...]
While the idea of shipping goods is quite an old one, using containers for their transportation in bulk quantities across the sea is fairly new. Only about six decades ago, an entrepreneur named [...]
With the rise of a global pandemic, the world economies are on the verge of fall. By the world economy, we mean the countries that are major contributors to it. The United States is one of [...]
The apparent cyber attack on MSC spotlights the increased risk of fraud, cyber attack, and cargo theft during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the middle of all this highly increased working remotely [...]
You won't find a more complete roundup of how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting international shipping, specifically the ocean freight sector, right now than this blog post here. This [...]
This is a guest post by Cory Levins. Progress happens at an astounding pace. The world we inhabit today is very far away from the world of yesteryear. The past couple of decades have seen [...]
Before 2020 hits, let's take a look back at 2019. What happened in international shipping this year didn't happen in a bubble. Just like events of years past affected this year, the things [...]
As 2019 draws to a close, a ton of things are happening in international shipping. You would think with the last three blogs getting into IMO 2020, Incoterm changes with Incoterms 2020, and the [...]
The outlook on shipping through the Arctic is changing. And I'm not just talking about the changes in climate making shipping through the North Pole possible. Ocean freight carriers are coming [...]