It's not unprecedented, but we're looking at an early peak season for international shipping this year. Analyzing wide industry reporting, the demand side of ocean freight has picked up in April [...]
This is a guest post by Ellie Gabel. The Baltimore bridge collapse and the Taiwan earthquake are among the latest disruptions forcing businesses to adjust their management and tracking [...]
If you're importing from Asia right now, there's a high chance you're experiencing or about to experience delays in getting your cargo. It's likely an increase in shipping costs is hitting this [...]
A couple weeks ago, I posted an article about what AI "thinks" about international shipping. It contained a "conversation" I had with AI, where I asked it questions about international shipping. [...]
For today's blog, I thought we'd do something a little bit different. The artificial intelligence (AI) craze has hit. Despite all those warnings we got from movies in the 80's and 90's, everyone [...]
In a speech, yesterday, to union workers in Pennsylvania, President Biden called for U.S. trade representative Katherine Tai to consider tripling tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum if her [...]
Anti-Israel protests essentially shut down the Port of Oakland yesterday, and that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Such protests have taken aim at ports around the world, to varying degrees [...]
When it comes to freight rates, the international shipping industry has always been a volatile ride. Imagine going up and down the waves of choppy waters in a small boat. Freight rates tend to [...]
While we've made mention of its status in some articles, we haven't done a full update on the Panama Canal situation since a February post. That post was a much needed moment of good news for [...]
What's been happening with shipping on the East Coast since the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge? I'm glad you asked. Let's get into the updates... There were close to 100 ships [...]
Today (Tuesday, April 2nd), the Biden Administration announced a new rule that increases the minimum crew size to two on every train for all large freight railroads. That doesn't mean every train [...]
CEO of Hapag-Lloyd Rolf Habben Jansen told CNBC that he thinks international shipping’s peak season is going to come early this year. Lori Ann LaRocco reported: “I would also expect that [...]
This is a guest post by Ellie Gabel. Supply chains have not had it easy for the past few years. Disruptions have grown in frequency and severity, and while issues may have come down from their [...]
A boy waits for his mother to pick him up. But she doesn't show. She doesn't call. No one can get a hold of her. The woman is reported missing, and the police investigate. Nothing. There's no [...]
The situation in the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea, forcing ocean freight carriers to route ships away from the Suez Canal, got worse yesterday (Wednesday, March 6th). Antisemitic, Iran-backed Houthi [...]
Earlier this week, on the 26th of February, the Federal Maritime Commission issued its final rules for demurrage and detention billing as set up for it to create by the Ocean Shipping Reform Act [...]
As we continue to see the beginnings of how the recent and ongoing changes to U.S. shipping law affect businesses’ imports and exports as well as carriers’ and other industry stakeholders’ [...]
"How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it's a spy satellite?" --George Carlin If you're ever at a major U.S. port, take a look at the cranes looming over the [...]
Shippers should make no plans for a return to ocean freight routes through the Suez Canal in the near future. Perhaps the most damaging attacks in the Red Sea area so far happened on Sunday. [...]
You wouldn't know it by watching the news, but the water conditions at the Panama Canal have improved. More ships can transit the canal than restrictions had been and were planning to allow. With [...]