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Warehousing capacity in the US is predicted to get tighter as 2023 progresses despite the substantial number of distribution and warehousing construction projects under way and efforts to reduce inventories.

The Port of Houston said it has resolved the software issues that will allow it to proceed with an additional fee on import containers dwelling eight days or longer at its marine terminals.

Norfolk Southern Railway will shut one of two container spillover lots outside Memphis this week after a significant reduction in rail boxes coming into the inland hub from Savannah.

The filing is just the latest in a barrage of complaints made against various container lines with the FMC in recent months, a flurry accelerated by major reform of US shipping law that went into effect in June.

Southeastern US ports are anticipating a volume slowdown in 2023, and hope to take the time to increase capacity ahead of the next surge in demand.

Globally, schedule reliability in November increased in 31 of the 34 trade lanes measured by Sea-Intelligence Maritime Analysis, with 56.6 percent of vessels arriving on time overall.

After two years of record profits, a continued softening of demand and increased competition will put forwarding margins under pressure in the first half of 2023.

As the US eases sanctions that have helped cripple the Venezuelan economy, Maersk’s Sealand subsidiary is taking a small step to re-establish trade ties by offering a weekly service between the two countries.

After a messy 2022, the West Coast is starting 2023 nearly congestion-free as worries rise about how much market share has been lost to the East and Gulf coasts.

Contract rates will be lower this year, shippers, carriers, and analysts agree, but no one knows yet just how much lower reduced demand will take rates in the end.

The acquisition of a majority share of three terminals in Los Angeles and Oakland will allow Ocean Network Express to better coordinate vessel operations with those terminals and, in turn, improve cargo flow.

Although the precise cost of inclusion of container shipping in the EU’s Emissions Trading System is not fully known, it will likely exceed $10 billion annually, according to Journal of Commerce analyst Lars Jensen.

US less-than-truckload carrier Roadrunner is arming drivers in its network with a booking application that feeds into its new internal operational systems.

Carriers are suspending feeder services between Hong Kong and Shenzhen and second-tier ports in southern China from mid-January due to COVID-19 quarantine rules for barge crews heading home for the Lunar New Year holidays.

The cap-and-trade emissions cutting system being implemented in Europe will have a “positive influence” on decarbonization agreements at an international level, according to the European Shippers’ Council.

With strong economic and population growth and freight related to so-called giga projects expected to boost demand, officials in Saudi Arabia are making big bets on maritime trade, including building a new 9 million TEU container port.

At the core of the concerns expressed by carriers and terminal operators are what they say are the limits the FMC’s proposed rule on detention and demurrage would place on their ability to bill truckers and consignees.

The International Longshoremen’s Association won a victory related to a dispute at the Port of Charleston as federal labor regulators say a lawsuit aimed at preserving their work on container ships was legal.

New Jersey’s warehousing growth of just 1 percent is butting up against the 8 percent volume growth at the Port of New York and New Jersey, with ever more shippers looking to tap the port’s capacity.

HMM’s north–south inland solution in India ties in with an evolving industry strategy to aggregate cargo with a single port call, allowing carriers to maximize capacity utilization and save on port charges.

Long-term rates on major trade lanes out of Asia have fallen steadily through Q4 as shippers sign fewer contracts and instead ride the collapsing spot markets.

The need for forwarders to tether quoting and tracking in international freight modes to US surface modes has been highlighted by new offerings from ECU Worldwide and Freightos.

Marine chassis were hard to come by at times during 2022, but equipment should be easler to come by during 2023.

Shippers locked into long-term contracts at elevated rate levels on trades out of Asia are feeling “burnt” as the spot market collapses, according to the Global Shippers’ Forum.

How the new vessel carbon intensity rating measure will be applied from January continues to rile the global shipping community, with BIMCO facing the latest maritime industry broadside.

Truck freight demand is falling closer to 2021 levels as 2022 draws toward its close, putting more pressure on truckload and LTL rates.

Whereas a shortage of capacity in major trades was the chief issue for air cargo providers over the past two years, the greatest challenge in 2023 will be a lack of demand.

THE Alliance member Hapag-Lloyd says shippers can expect a “simplified” network in 2023, but that could mean larger ships, fewer services, and less transshipment.

Danish power company Ørsted says policymakers must provide a regulatory environment that allows companies to commit to the huge investment required in developing shipping’s fuel of the future.

While congestion at US ports and inland hubs has eased significantly amid declining import volumes, stakeholders need to act now to ready themselves for the next cargo surge, supply chain experts say.

As the US economy slows, logistics managers are searching not just for lower supply chain costs but a normalization of freight flows and networks, a level of stability and predictability that remains elusive.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 requires the US Department of Transportation to make recommendations for how Congress can invest in and increase the resilience of the US marine transportation system.

Domestic intermodal volume suffered its worst November in seven years, which will put additional pressure on intermodal providers to provide concessions to shippers on contracts for 2023.

Longer voyages, high demand, and tight capacity are boosting earnings and charter rates in the global car carrier segment.

Carriers, forwarders, and shippers say there will be no pre-Lunar Year bump in rates because they expect US demand to remain weak while exports from China decline further.

China’s exports fell almost 9 percent in November, while carriers continue to pull significant levels of capacity on trans-Pacific and Asia-Europe services.

Capacity cuts and service realignments could be looming on trades out of India as carriers face an acceleration of recent rate declines.

The decline in US imports from Asia is expected to accelerate in the coming months as earlier-than-usual Lunar New Year factory shutdowns in China cause production to plummet.

As inflation-battered consumers shop for bargains, US retail discounters are expanding their distribution networks.

Shipping’s transition to zero-carbon energy sources will be costly, but shippers are showing a growing willingness to pay to decarbonize their ocean transport supply chains.