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You can talk about the motion of the ocean all day, but we all know that size matters in international shipping. And bigger is better, right? Well, it turns out the big shippers’ size has [...]

If there is an industry where efficiency and productivity matter (and is there an industry where it doesn’t?), it is international shipping. For years, technology has existed, been [...]

Your imported cargo was supposed to arrive today. But it doesn’t. Instead, it will arrive tomorrow. Or the next day. Maybe even later… If you’re an international shipper, [...]

“And now for something completely different…” We take a break from our regular blogs to reach out to our readers and shippers everywhere, asking you how we can serve your needs [...]

Yes, it’s already time to start talking about West Coast ports’ labor contract negotiations again. The import and export disruption and port congestion from the contentious 2014/2015 [...]

What’s going on with this new Verified Gross Mass (VGM) rule? Somehow the answer to that question is getting less clear as the July 1st rule change concerning VGM draws near. Ripples of [...]

It has begun. Amazon is launching air freight service. The rumors have been circulating for a while that Amazon was planning to lease Boeing jets and take over shipping that the e-commerce giant [...]

As the international shipping industry is on the verge of a shakeup from carrier alliances rearranging themselves, maritime regulators throughout the world should reexamine whether these large [...]

The actions of the world’s #1 sea freight forwarder, Kuehne + Nagel (K+N), during World War II are being called “a form of corpse robbing” by Frank Bajohr of the Munich Centre [...]

China boasts the second largest economy in the world, but economic research and numbers show a declining Chinese economy in February. And that is not an anomaly, but a disturbing trend. Voice of [...]