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The Port of Long Beach container volumes fell 4.7 percent in the first quarter of 2019 compared last year as the rush to beat tariffs eased. The Port of

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – As carriers to struggle with overcapacity, the impact of potential US automotive tariffs is only likely to worsen

By Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — America’s biggest natural gas exporter is ready to sign long-term agreements with buyers in China, the world’s top

By Jeff Mason and David Lawder WASHINGTON, April 4 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday a trade deal with China was getting very

By Lisa Baertlein and Matthias Inverardi LOS ANGELES/DUSSELDORF, April 2 (Reuters) – The volume of U.S. ocean cargo imports arranged by Deutsche

By Liam Denning (Bloomberg Opinion) — One pocket-sized symbol of globalization is the iPhone; that California-by-way-of-China apotheosis of

By Jenny Leonard, Saleha Mohsin and Jennifer Jacobs (Bloomberg) — Some U.S. negotiators are concerned that China is pushing back against American demands

March 12 (Reuters) – Only one liquefied natural gas (LNG) vessel that left the United States in 2019 went to China, Reuters shipping data show, as the

By Shruti Date Singh (Bloomberg) — An industry that saw dramatic growth in the decade before Donald Trump took office is now concerned his

By Chen Aizhu SINGAPORE, March 6 (Reuters) – China Petroleum and Chemical Corp plans to sign a 20-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply agreement with

By Jenny Leonard (Bloomberg) — The U.S. and China are close to a trade deal that could lift most or all U.S. tariffs as long as Beijing follows

By Julie Ingwersen and Karl Plume – March 1 (Reuters) – Flooding and ice buildup on key rivers in the U.S. Midwest has stalled the movement of

By Chris Prentice and A. Ananthalakshmi NEW YORK/KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 (Reuters) – In June, the High Seas tanker ship loaded up on ethanol in Texas

Jan 9 (Reuters) – The number of U.S. liquefied natural gas vessels that went to China in 2018 fell by around 20 percent from the prior year as the

By Andrew Mayeda, Kasia Klimasinska and Jenny Leonard (Bloomberg) — The Trump administration expressed optimism it can reach a “reasonable”

By Shawn Donnan (Bloomberg) — A few days before Christmas, the container ship “SM Shanghai” was steaming toward California’s Port of Long Beach.

America’s busiest container port, the Port of Los Angeles, processed 832,331 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) in November 2018 putting it on track to

By Julie Ingwersen and Humeyra Pamuk CHICAGO/WASHINGTON Dec 13 (Reuters) – U.S. government officials on Thursday hailed China’s first meager

Cargo volume at the Port of Long Beach continued to rise in November, setting the stage for a second consecutive calendar year record. The Port handled 621,835

By Naureen S. Malik (Bloomberg) — The arrest of a top Chinese technology executive means the tariff war that ensnared liquefied natural gas may not have