Filed in Ocean Freight

Thursday, November 01, 2012

In anticipation of the Panama Canal expansion in 2014, the fight for market share of inbound cargo remains fierce among top U.S. ports.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

A confluence of ongoing events, including the debt crisis hitting exports, domestic sales and consumer confidence and imports, which have added to declining trade volumes, has led to a recession being formally declared in the European Union, according to the most recent edition of the Global Port Tracker report.

Friday, October 19, 2012

Some shippers are using Matson’s China service as an alternative to air freight, clearly an option that delivers significant value for their supply chains.

Miami-Dade County announced that the contracting phase of its project to deepen the Port of Miami’s channel to minus 50 feet has begun

Thursday, October 11, 2012

While executives in the container-shipping industry would probably like to forget 2011, the resiliency of industry players will prove itself once again, said analysts at the Boston Consulting Group.

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

In anticipation of the Panama Canal expansion if 2014, the fight for market share of inbound shipping remains fierce among U.S. ports

Monday, October 01, 2012

Renewed market discipline has helped the world’s leading ocean carriers to restore rates while delivering on enhanced service. Could this be the “turnaround year” on the high seas?

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Transpacific shippers will be facing a new wave of price hikes next year, as carriers collectively agree on a future rate structure

Friday, September 21, 2012

Zepol Corporation, a leading trade intelligence company, reports that U.S. import shipment volume for August, measured in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), is down from July by 3 percent and 0.3 percent from August of 2011

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

With Peak Season, or at least the semblance of it underway, August volumes at the nation’s two largest ports—the Port of Los Angeles (POLA) and the Port of Long Beach (POLB)—were mixed in August.