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Zim Integrated Shipping Services said it expects governmental pressures on container lines to slow steam ships will blunt significant new capacity additions slated to hit the water 2023.

DB Schenker’s Thorsten Meincke says container lines are doing their “best possible to get the supply chain running,” although he warns US landside challenges will continue to challenge efforts.

A new digitally focused ocean freight consolidator believes it can piggyback on demand in India for less-than-container load (LCL) services with a transparent approach to pricing.

The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic last year forced container throughput at the world’s largest ports down for the first time in four years due to lockdowns and factory closures around the world.

Completion of the Long Beach Container Terminal expansion project provides an additional 1 million TEU in annual capacity as new trans-Pacific services and extra-loader vessels search for terminal space amid record import volumes.

Factories in the key manufacturing zone around Ho Chi Minh City are being forced to close as COVID-19 measures cut worker movements and extend production downtime.

Consolidation in the global logistics sector continues with DHL’s parent company acquiring compatriot forwarder JF Hillebrand, which specializes in beverage and bulk liquid logistics.

A month after grabbing its first North American customer, Portchain has added a new Mediterranean transshipment terminal to its growing footprint of container ports using its berth planning software.

Shippers are changing their networks and procurement strategies to secure truck capacity, but street- or yard-level chaos amid supply chain disruption can undo their plans.

BNSF and Norfolk Southern look to spare yard capacity to deal with rising intermodal volumes across their networks.

Trucking load board DAT’s partnerships with a range of small carrier software vendors signify the importance of aggregating small carrier demand in a market in which brokers are hungry for capacity.

Forwarders say the disruption at Ningbo is significantly less than what occurred during the Yantian COVID-19 outbreak earlier this summer, although carriers still have contingency plans in place pending a reopening.

With the Agility deal wrapped up, DSV moves into the top three global forwarders where scale is critical in generating operational and commercial benefits.

Increased infrastructure investment and regulation may help the US regain some of the economic ground it has lost in competing against China.

Although US imports from Asia have returned to single-digit growth after 11 consecutive months of double-digit increases, the cargo base is so large that even incremental growth this peak season will result in record import volumes.

President Biden’s recognition of global supply chain challenges draws attention to congestion in the US supply chain and should result in direct measures to mitigate the problems, according to the executive director of the Port of Los Angeles.

Measures by China to curb the spread of COVID-19 are leading to growing disruptions to air cargo at the country’s important export gateways.

Maersk’s acquisition of Visible Supply Chain Management last week adds nine fulfillment centers to its distribution network, allowing it to reach 95 percent of the US direct-to-consumer market within 48 hours.

HMM has continued its profitable momentum in the first half and like its peers has no expectation the positive earnings environment will change for the rest of the year.

With ocean carriers pushing importers toward transloading in California amid record-high spot intermodal rates, trucks are becoming a hot commodity in Los Angeles in August.

Forget the fall, the peak US truck shipping season is under way now, trucking analysts say, with spot truckload rates elevated and contract rates still climbing.

By transloading railed goods from ocean containers into domestic containers at Ashcroft inland port, Canadian Tire aims to take greater control of its import flows through the Port of Vancouver.

The FRONTdoor Collective will provide franchised last-mile options to providers, logistics providers, and shippers looking to expand or build out last-mile capabilities.

Shippers will be stuck with high rates and limited capacity through the first quarter of 2022, says Hapag-Lloyd, with no change in market conditions expected before then.

Maersk has shifted its call at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) on the India/Middle East–Mediterranean ME2 service to the PSA-operated BMCT after increasing vessel capacity on the loop to an average of 10,000 TEU.

CMA CGM and Cosco Shipping have begun diverting ships away from a Ningbo marine terminal closed due to a COVID infected worker, raising the specter that congestion will build at other port terminals.

Trucking rates may be nearing their high point, but there’s little sign they will drop anytime soon in a market still dealing with chaos caused by COVID-19 disruption, high demand, and constrained capacity.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. is adding a new string connecting India with the US and revising its two existing loops to capitalize on growing demand in the capacity-constrained trade.

The global supply chain is holding its collective breath the positive COVID-19 result that has shut down one of Ningbo-Zhoushan's container terminals will not spread through China’s second busiest port.

Both of the primary ingredients to the traditional US intermodal peak season — a seasonal increase in demand and an increase in the number of TEU processed — are in question in 2021.

Early-stage logistics marketplace FreightMango will use container visibility data from Vizion to bolster its offerings to shippers, part of a wider trend of forwarding platfoms needing better tracking information.

Near record-low vacancy rates at distribution warehouses throughout the US sound the alarm that shippers seeking additional logistics space for the peak season may be out of luck.

The acquisition of parcel consolidator Access Worldwide by startup cross-border shipping platform Passport is likely targeted at cost-conscious shippers needing to fulfill small package orders.

Having vessels arrive on time at North European ports may be a pipe dream in today’s chaotic ocean markets, but more widely shared and accurate port call data will at least be an improvement, say port call software providers.

Old Dominion Freight Line, the second-largest US LTL carrier, is accelerating a $275 million expansion plan as surging LTL becomes more central to the consumer economy.

The Tuesday introduction of a bill that would significantly change US shipping law for the first time in two decades drew sharp fire from container lines, who argue the legislation is infused with “unfairness” that risks making imports and exports more expensive.

Class I railroads with operations at the largest US inland rail hub, Chicago, are seeing volumes of stored containers swell 200 percent or more, creating congestion across their network.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott will extend for another 30 days a waiver that allows truckers to exceed federally regulated service hours as the Port of Houston deals with heavy cargo volumes.

The world’s busiest container port is seeing lengthy queues of ships waiting to load and unload, which is having a knock-on effect on sailing schedules that are already disrupted.

While some shippers are facing extreme rate increases to the point of making their business unviable, data shows the majority of cargo being shipped is not facing the extremes of spot market gains, according to JOC analyst Lars Jensen.