Shipping

American consumers are expected to spend up to $859 billion on holiday shopping this season, possibly shattering previous records, the National Retail

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The 2M carriers, Maersk and MSC, with VSA partner Zim, will drop Seattle from the schedule of their TP9/Eagle/ZP9

By Ben Holland (Bloomberg) — The U.S. is suffering longer delivery delays than other economies because of stronger demand from American consumers, a

Women aiming for successful careers in maritime should be more courageous, not worry about failure and expect to be seen as equals, a senior shipping executive

By Stephen Stapczynski (Bloomberg) — Asian liquefied natural gas traders are rushing to secure shipments from the U.S., where prices are among the

By Lucila Sigal (Reuters) – Gustavo Alcides Diaz, an Argentine fisherman and hunter from a river island community, is at home on the water. The Parana

by Stine Jacobsen (Reuters) Chaotic conditions in the freight sector and sky-high prices for transporting goods will persist for “a very very long

By Ana Monteiro (Bloomberg) — The U.S.’s biggest retail lobby asked Congress to pass a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package as well as update shipping

In its latest update addressing supply chain disruptions, the world’s top shipping company Maersk said the challenges the United States is facing with

The drybulk market, described a few weeks ago as “overheated” or “on fire”,  has been inching back to a calmer and cooler situation. Interestingly,

CEOs from the world’s biggest shipping companies and government representatives from maritime states will convene in Glasgow at a cross-industry

By Jack Wittels (Bloomberg) — Liquefied gas has a strong future as a marine fuel, even if shipping’s global regulator adopts stricter emissions

TOKYO, Oct 26 (Reuters) – Japan’s Nippon Yusen KK (NYK) and its partners said on Tuesday they will conduct a demonstration project to develop

The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have announced a plan to begin charging a daily fee to ocean carriers for import containers that linger in marine

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Shippers from Asia to North Europe are being given conflicting information on vessel ETAs by carriers in the same

Houston-based liquefied natural gas producer and exporter Cheniere Energy has announced a binding long-term agreement on the sale and purchase of LNG with

Oct 25 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc said on Monday it had doubled its container processing capacity and secured more shipping storage from ocean

The Baltic Dry Index, at 4,257 points, has now fallen over 24% from its 13-year peak earlier this month. Oct 25 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange’s

By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) –Officials in Long Beach, California, relaxed restrictions on storing shipping containers in a bid to ease a

By Marcelo Teixeira NEW YORK, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Food traders are switching from containers back to dry bulk vessels to transport refined sugar and rice,