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Political pressure has increased recently to help US agricultural exporters, who have lost billions due to an inability to access sufficient numbers of export containers.

Three of 12 unions representing rail workers reached a tentative deal to avert a strike next month, but two of the largest unions have still not reached an agreement with US freight railroads.

While spillover cargo flows back to the container market, a strong breakbulk market is keeping the MPV sector afloat.

Maersk’s terminals business will no longer own any assets in Russia, but the deal gives it the ability to regain its ownership share in GPI in the future.

Barge services along large parts of the Yangtze River, a critical Chinese transport artery, are severely disrupted due to the continuing drought in central and western parts of the country.

The latest acquisition by RoadOne strengthens its national intermodal drayage fleet, connecting customers and containerized freight from the Northeast to the US Gulf Coast.

The US Surface Transportation Board has given CSX, Norfolk Southern, and the Port of Mobile more time to reach an agreement with Amtrak over the restart of a Gulf Coast passenger service.

Weeks of delays in moving freight from US ports to Chicago are eating into the inland warehousing space needed to get that freight out of intermodal railyards and to customers.

Average air cargo rates on east-west trade lanes have declined significantly since April as demand slows in line with the traditional slack summer season.

Any changes to shipping taxation will not make a skewed competitive playing field more even — it will merely make it skewed in a different way, writes JOC analyst Lars Jensen.

Shippers in sectors such as aerospace, pharmaceuticals, and IT saw an average hit of $182 million from supply chain disruptions on an annualized basis, which technology provider Interos said will compel many companies to explore nearshoring options.

DOJ said the deal between CIMC and Maersk would have merged two of the four largest producers of reefer containers in the world, increasing the risk of collusion among remaining suppliers.

Vessel schedule reliability in the eastbound trans-Pacific last month improved to the West Coast but deteriorated for the third consecutive month at ports along the East and Gulf coasts.

IMO member nations must ensure the regulatory blocks are in place that will encourage the required investment to support shipping’s transition to sustainable fuel, according to the World Shipping Council.

Even with the recent sharp decline in spot rates, they are still more than twice what they were two years ago when imports from Asia began to surge after initial COVID-19 lockdowns in the US were lifted.

The trans-Atlantic westbound trade has bucked the falling rate trend on the major trade routes out of Asia, and carriers are shifting capacity to take advantage.

Developers have installed a total of 139 gigawatts of onshore wind energy production across the US, with another 23 GW under construction or in advanced development as of the second quarter of 2022.

Incumbent third-party logistics providers that manage an array of services are being challenged by digitally native upstarts who can provide single, unified platforms to shippers.

NY-NJ marine terminals have been almost constantly offering Saturday gates over the last two years to help move import volumes, but those gates have accounted for only about 5 percent of total truck transactions.

The industrial action hanging over Germany’s busiest container ports has been resolved, but there is no agreement in sight at the increasingly bitter Felixstowe strike in the UK.

The American Trucking Associations reports truck tonnage levels were still high in July, running counter to reports that trucking demand is weakening ahead of the fourth quarter.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. will delay Asia departures for a week or more in September as port congestion and vessel bunching disrupts vessel arrivals in North America.

Yang Ming has been hit twice this year with complaints from importers alleging the carrier failed to honor capacity commitments.

Charleston’s planned near-dock intermodal facility would allow the port more autonomy to move cargo and the ability to connect with major cities like Atlanta and Charlotte.

Shippers who move cargo through Houston say more needs to be done to address how exports are handled in the face of surging import volumes that have also sucked up truck, yard, and chassis capacity.

RoadOne sees demand for transload services as being sustainable enough to outlast any economic downturn as it invests in facilities in Norfolk and Oakland.

Vancouver has experienced excessive container dwell times for several months as congestion at rail hubs in Toronto and Montreal reduced intermodal services to and from Canada’s largest port.

The largest truckload acquisition to date this year would put Heartland at about 11th on the Top 25 Truckload Carrier rankings prepared for JOC.com.

The global super-heavy carrier fleet is at 91 percent utilization as governments accelerate energy investments amid the rush to cut ties with Russia.

Dockworkers demanding inflation-busting pay increases in a deepening cost-of-living crisis are a fast-growing threat to the already overstretched European container supply chain.

The dispute over job jurisdiction at Seattle's Terminal 5 (T5) was known to be one of the most contentious issues headed into negotiations between West Coast longshore labor and management, which began on May 10 and could continue well into the fall.

Wan Hai says adding port calls to the US East Coast gives the carrier and its customers more options for returning empty containers rather than just sending them to the Port of New York and New Jersey.

APM expects its new terminal at Brazil’s Port of Suape will be fully operational by the end of 2025 with an initial capacity of 400,000 TEU.

Pandemic congestion may be easing as container rates fall, but breakbulk spillover cargo shows no sign of slowing at the Port of New Orleans.

Above-average volume growth has narrowed the gap between the 2M Alliance and the Ocean Alliance atop JOC.com’s rankings of the Top 40 Container Carriers by US Imports in 2022.

While Hamburg’s container trade with Russia fell sharply in the first half amid EU sanctions on Moscow, the German port still managed to see small growth in box volumes, unlike its major competitors.

OOIL’s chairman says he’s not seeing much evidence of the kind of significant seasonal uptick in demand that is often a feature of the traditional trans-Pacific peak season.

The jump in July throughput at the world’s biggest container port came as US imports from Asia last month rose from both June and the year-ago period.

US railways and union workers have 30 days to review the wage and benefit recommendations made by the Presidential Emergency Board created by the White House last month to oversee the closely watched negotiations.

The disruptive impact of returning empty containers to marine terminals is magnified by the fact ocean carriers lack the incentive they had last year to rapidly reposition those boxes back to Asia.