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The Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway system is reopening this week.

“Shippers along these routes will get the best transit times, most competition, and cheapest rates. The reverse will be true for niche shippers.”

Rickmers Maritime’s loss rose to $180.1 million in 2016 from $129.2 million a year earlier.

If world trade demand increased by 3 percent per year between now and 2022, a total of 22 million TEUs would be required.

US authorities capitalized on a rare window to exercise their power over non-US-based companies.

Cass truckload and intermodal data reflect importance of fuel in pricing and rising demand.

A new generation of leadership at US Xpress Enterprises plots a route through disruption, change to come.

The International Dockworkers’ Council on Monday called off worldwide strikes slated for March 23.

Maersk Line chief commercial officer Vincent Clerc lays out how technology will reshape global supply chains.

New York may be the city that never sleeps, but the four main terminals at its namesake port, the Port of New York and New Jersey, are closed by 7 p.m.

The company posted a record adjusted EBITDA margin of 54.4 percent.

The services to the US Southeast are the latest in a series of trans-Pacific services the Haifa-based carrier has been introducing ahead of the restructuring of the global vessel-sharing agreements April 1.

The system will help increase the number of New Panamax ships that can pass through the Panama Canal from an average of five a day at present.

The two partners will coordinate their resources to provide cold chain logistics solutions.

Despite President Donald Trump’s aversion to multilateral agreements, TFA holds big benefits for US companies.

The TFA contains sweeping provisions for expediting the movement of goods, and for publishing up-to-date data about rules and regulations critical for speeding up trade facilitation.

The first quarter for Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific is looking good, at least from a cargo perspective, following strong air freight growth in January and February.

A "technical error" could cut $112 million from federal funding for truck safety enforcement programs, raising the risk of high-cost accidents.

Spot rates each week have declined in single-digit increments since peaking in mid January.

“Working together in a cartel ... does not fly with the Commission.”

SM Line is entering an already crowded market.

Nagoya is Japan’s third-largest container port for foreign trade and Yokkaichi is ninth.

This week Bahri opened a previously announced office in Houston’s “Energy Corridor.”

The two carriers had planned to close on the transaction by March 31.

The group, which is listed on the London stock exchange, swung to an operating loss of $500,000.

The lessons to be learned from the collapse of Hanjin Shipping are almost too many to absorb.

Brazil formerly had an independent port ministry.

There has been a sharp rise in long-term contract levels on Asia-North Europe, even as the spot market manages to hold above $800 per TEU.

Drivers at XPO's terminal in Trenton request a union election as the company battles the union on more than one front.

“If we get a cut of what they are talking about, it’s going to be devastating.”

Attendees at the JOC's 17th Annual TPM Conference were anxious about what to expect in 2017.

FMC Commissioner Daniel Maffei said he was “disappointed” to learn this week that the 2M and Ocean alliances had decided to forgo emergency funds to protect cargo.

The strikes would have involved dockworkers stopping work every other hour.

"After five years we will probably see new alliances, and smaller capacity carriers may lose out.”

The company told JOC.com that its terminals would be charging for only one “shift move” instead of two moves previously.

India wants to switch from a point-to-point transportation system to a hub-and-spoke model.

Lufthansa Cargo sank into the red in 2016.

The new alliances start operating in two weeks, and the additional capacity they will inject into Asia-Europe could see the return of rate volatility.

It’s unclear whether the private sector has what it takes to make sensitive matchback solutions sustainable.

The gains came despite draft restrictions and strikes by customs officers and stevedores.