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If you go on Facebook and scroll through, you'll probably find a lot of people bemoaning 2020 as a terrible year. For ocean freight carriers, on the other hand, 2020 has been one of the greatest [...]

While it wasn't anywhere near as big as the devastating blast at the Port of Beirut a few weeks ago, a tragic explosion interrupted a U.S. port at the end of last week. On Friday, a dredging ship [...]

A month ago, Greg Miller reported in an American Shipper article that not only had freight rates finally stopped rising but they also had dropped a bit. He posed the question, "Is this a new [...]

This is a guest post by Samuel Reeds. In the contemporary world, the pace of technological progress is truly astounding. Consequently, the rate at which new technologies are implemented in [...]

This is a guest post by Ofer Tirosh. What are the pros and cons of business process outsourcing in supply chain logistics? Will it make the business operate more smoothly or will it hamper [...]

The massive explosion at the Port of Beirut last week shined a light on a problem in international shipping that has long been hidden in the shadows. The blast – which killed 171 people and [...]

On Tuesday, the Port of Beirut was blown off the map by an explosion so big it shook the entire capitol city of Lebanon. The death toll is still growing, but last I saw, 135 people were reported [...]

Reporting is starting to come in on the first quarter of the financial year for carriers. Ocean Network Express (ONE), formed a few years ago when Japan's big three ocean carriers – K Line, MOL, [...]