While many people are familiar with power of attorney (POA) in general legal terms, POA in shipping is a slightly different and more...

Intermodal shipping simply refers to any movement of freight that involves two or more modes of transportation, generally, truck, train,...

Some business practices are so detestably inhumane that the United States government feels compelled to act even in cases when other...

2021 marks the 65th anniversary of containerized shipping. On April 26th, 1956, shipping containers became an industry. Although it took...

While the EU has come up with a carbon emissions trading scheme to reduce the world’s effects toward climate change, container lines are...

Over the last year and a half, we have written several times about the US-based port congestion in relation to COVID-19 as well as a lack...

Until early 2021, the Port of Oakland did not have any first calls inbound from Asia. However, due to record volumes of imports from China l

While the Suez Canal blockage affected a total of about 330,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) over six days, the clogged Yantian...

The shifts caused by the pandemic have been felt by just about every industry, leading to some sudden and substantial shifts in consumer...

Currently, at the time of this article’s publication, two of Canada's biggest railroad companies, Canadian National and Canadian Pacific,...

The retail world was already in the process of shifting to digital storefronts and home deliveries prior to the onset of the Covid-19...

Global trade continues to take blow after blow in its battle against Covid-19, which is causing freight costs to maintain their upward surge

For over a year, ports in Southern California have been running at 110% capacity with full anchorage areas. At times, some ships wait to doc

A GRI, or General Rate Increase, is an increase in base ocean freight rates for a specific route during a set period. These rate...

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, global supply chains have been struggling with container shortages all over the world....

A major fracture was discovered in the Hernando de Soto Bridge’s steel support structure during a routine inspection of the Memphis...

Tensions between longshore unions and terminal operators have been escalating in North America while struggles in Canada, the Southeast,...

Air freight rates on the trans-Pacific continue to climb, as the US economic recovery bolsters robust demand on the capacity-constrained...

It may come as a surprise to many, but not everything that gets placed on a cargo ship always makes it to its destination. Whether...

Green financing is a new way of financing that connects the terms of loans with certain sustainability metrics. This type of financing...