Ports

The Port of Long Beach has reported its busiest January on record as the cargo boom continues into 2021. Dockworkers and terminal operators at the port moved

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – Federal Maritime Commissioners Carl Bentzel and Daniel Maffei have written to US president Joe Biden urging

By Ann Koh (Bloomberg) — A huge pile up of fish cargoes at a Chinese port risks impacting shipments of frozen food across the country and beyond.

By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) — Cargo ships enduring one of the worst U.S. port bottlenecks in more than a decade faced down another obstacle as they

Overall tonnage transported by ships in the binational Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway system was down slightly in the 2020 navigation season compared to 2019,

Singapore has unveiled plans for an aggressive vaccination blitz for frontline maritime workers that aims to put some 10,000 needles in arms by the end of the

By Gabriel Crossley and Kevin Yao BEIJING, Jan 18 (Reuters) – China’s economy picked up speed in the fourth quarter, with growth beating

SINGAPORE, Jan 15 (Reuters) – Commodities trader Trafigura has won a licence to supply bonded marine fuel at the port of Zhoushan, China’s top

The Port of Long Beach moved a record 8.1 million TEUs in 2020 despite facing headwinds from the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing trade war with China. Total

The Port of Los Angeles reported its fourth best year on record in 2020 as a late-year surge of pandemic-induced consumer spending helped boost volumes to near

By Muyu Xu and Chen Aizhu (Reuters) – Chinese ports and marine safety authorities are on high alert as an expansion of sea ice makes it tougher

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — China’s coldest winter in decades meant state-owned energy giant Sinopec was desperate to unload heating fuel from a

DUBLIN, Jan 9 (Reuters) – Firefighters have brought a large fire at the southern Irish port of Cork under control and no casualties were reported, the

By Eric Martin (Bloomberg) — The U.S. trade deficit widened to the second-largest on record in November as merchandise imports reached a more than

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) As Asia-Europe container spot rates continue to skyrocket, shippers and freight forwarders are accusing carriers of breaching

BAGHDAD, Dec 30 (Reuters) – Iraq agreed a $2.625 billion deal with South Korea’s Daewoo Engineering & Construction (047040.KS) on Wednesday to

by Maher Nazeh (Reuters) – Iraq agreed to a $2.625 billion deal with South Korea’s Daewoo Engineering & Construction ($047040.KS) on Wednesday

By Hugh Bronstein and Maximilian Heath (Reuters) – Argentina’s soy crushing companies signed a contract with the country’s oilseed workers

By Lizzy Burden, Deirdre Hipwell and Joe Mayes (Bloomberg) — Vital trade and travel links between the U.K. and continental Europe slowly reopened after

By Alaric Nightingale, Jeffrey Bair and Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — A great global restock is at hand, filling ships, trucks and trains, and also