by George Lauriat Apr 14, 2015
Port of Boston developing niche as medium-sized port
For the past two years the Port of Boston has posted some solid numbers based on improved port efficiencies.
Latin America faces challenges with fall in commodity prices
For nearly a decade the major economies of South America rode a growth wave propelled by high prices for export commodities. In 2014 the wave crashed down as commodity prices dropped. Now it is a question of who will recover quickest and best, economies like Chile on the west coast or the mega-economy Brazil.
The Year of the Goat for break-bulk shipping?
Dry bulk shipping has had a difficult run over the last twelve months and the outlook for the Year of the Goat is looking pretty cantankerous.
All quiet on the Western Front?
It’s another day of PMA and ILWU negotiations (at this writing talks are ongoing and it is easy to forget that it was in the middle of baseball season [July] when the contract expired) and a new participant US Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez has now (maybe inevitably) put his oar into the troubled waters of the West Coast waterfront labor dispute.
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