West Coast ports are calling on President Donald Trump to settle the U.S.-China Trade War, warning that failure to do so will cause irredeemable economic harm to employers, workers and...

The head of the busiest container port in the United States is calling for an end to the U.S.-China trade war even as cargo volumes hit a new single-month record...

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – This week’s Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) recorded further declines for Europe, but transpacific tradelanes rebounded as shippers struggled to digest the latest barrage...

HOUSTON, Aug 23 (Reuters) – China’s threat on Friday to slap a 5% tariff on U.S. oil imports could further soften demand for physical crude at hubs along the U.S....

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Despite the escalating US/China trade war, the ten biggest US container ports posted a surprisingly robust 2.7% year-on-year import throughput growth in July, for...

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Efforts to push rates up on Asia-North Europe trades are still failing, and carriers are now also beginning to feel the pinch from the...

By Christian Wienberg (Bloomberg) — The chief executive officer of the world’s biggest shipping line says he’d like to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump to explain the merits of...

By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN, Aug 15 (Reuters) – A.P. Moller-Maersk warned a trade war between the United States and China could curb container traffic this year after the world’s largest...

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – West coast US ports suffered last month, but there may be some relief with the news that the US government is rethinking plans for...

WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (Reuters) – China has denied a request for two U.S. Navy ships to visit Hong Kong in the coming weeks, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, as the...

The Port of Los Angles set a new single-month cargo record last month despite Trade War uncertainty and declining exports.  The Port of Los Angeles reported Monday that it moved...

Cargo volumes fell at the Port of Long Beach in July as impacts from the ongoing U.S.-China Trade War continue to hamper trans-Pacific trade.  The Port of Long Beach reported...

By Devika Krishna Kumar NEW YORK, Aug 9 (Reuters) – Chinese oil trader Unipec chartered a supertanker to ship U.S. crude to China in September, trading sources said, the first...

By Firat Kayakiran and Timothy Abington (Bloomberg) –Who cares about the threat of a global trade meltdown? Not shipping analysts tracking prices for moving everything from oil to crops, it...

By Susan Heavey, Yawen Chen and David Stanway WASHINGTON/BEIJING/SHANGHAI, Aug 6 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed concerns over a protracted trade war with China, as Beijing warned...

By Kiran Dhillon (Bloomberg) –The international oil benchmark closed below $60 dollars a barrel for the first time in almost two months as worsening U.S.-China trade relations intensified fears about...

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – The sharp escalation in the US/China trade war could see some short-term front-loading gains for transpacific carriers on the headhaul route, but it spells...

By Michael McDonald (Bloomberg) – The trade tension between the U.S. and China is making waves at the Panama Canal. Cargo from the U.S. to China going through the key...

LOS ANGELES, July 11 (Reuters) – The Los Angeles and Long Beach port complex, the nation’s busiest and the No. 1 for ocean trade with China, – handled 5.1%fewer inbound...

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Some of the people most eager to see a resolution in the U.S.-China trade conflict may be the crew of a ship circling in the...