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Despite reportedly being 95% complete, there’s a good chance the Panama Canal expansion won’t be completed by April of next year as currently projected. I can hear those groans and [...]

About $5 trillion of cargo a year is shipped through the major shipping lanes that go through the South China Sea. A good portion of that is trade between the U.S. and China. Escalating tension [...]

International shipping is a complicated business. That’s why freight forwarders exist; they help shippers with all the international shipping details so shippers can focus on the details of [...]

Hellenic Shipping News reports Germany and Iceland are working together on a port for a new arctic shipping route. The port’s harbor is planned to be located in Finnafjörður on the [...]

East Coast Vs. West Coast There’s a battle for supremacy between the East and West with lots of cash money in the balance. It seems like a battle that should be filled with bling and rap [...]

In our last blog, What the ISF?!, we gave an overview of ISF filing. ISF is required for every cargo shipment imported to the United States. If not done correctly, importers can face [...]

No, it’s not an expletive, but you’d think shippers were cussing when they talk about ISF. Actually, in some cases they probably are cursing because of how much money these three little letters [...]

The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have long reigned as the “Asia Gateway” to the United States. When it comes to imports from Asia, the twin ports in Southern California have [...]

What are you talking about?! Every industry has its own special vocabulary. The international shipping industry probably has more than most, along with a great many acronyms. It can be hard for [...]

Going green may not be as trendy a topic as it once was, but the maritime shipping industry is still taking the movement very seriously. And when it comes to international shipping through ocean [...]

You may have noticed a little trend lately in our blogs. Two weeks ago, we blogged 7 tips to beat cargo theft from identity theft. Last week, we blogged about a heist of a shipping container [...]

What: 16,000 kilograms (35,274 pounds) or 16 metric tons of silver bars worth 10 million dollars. Where: In a Maersk–only the world’s biggest shipping company–shipping container [...]

Who says international shipping has to be boring? For many, international shipping is a fascinating subject; however, for many, many, many more, it is not. Yet, over the last several years, [...]

Congestion at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach hit unbelievable levels during the contract negotiations between the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the International Longshore & [...]

It has been a crazy couple of weeks for the global economy. First, the world was astounded by a sudden devaluation of China’s yuan against the U.S. dollar on August 11th. Then came [...]

Last week, on August 17th, a BNSF Railway intermodal storage policy change went into effect that is making shippers unhappy. The displeasure with the new policy couldn’t be missed in a [...]

People are asking, “What is the fallout from the tragic explosions that took place last week on the waterfront in Tianjin, China?” Today’s blog gets into that from more [...]

Whose GSP is Automated and Whose is Not We recently blogged about President Obama signing a bill that retroactively extended the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) so importers can get their [...]