| June 27, 2023 | Ports & Terminals | Ports
This year’s “Top 100 Container Ports” annual edition again surveys the world’s largest box ports. While some of the results are as expected — Shanghai is still world’s largest container port — there are a number of up and coming ports that reflect new trends in the container trades.
| May 15, 2023 | Ports & Terminals | Ports
From Tampa Bay, Florida to Brownsville, Texas the U.S. Gulf Ports have experienced a growth in business — some of it due to the shift from West Coast Ports to the Gulf — and some of the growth is a result of prudent investments in port infrastructure to capture the opportunities.
| May 15, 2023 | Maritime | Breakbulk News
The recent acquisition of the Canadian and U.S. terminal business of Fednav Limited has added a major new dimension to the operations of Montreal-based LOGISTEC Corporation that Madeleine Paquin, president, and CEO, regards as a building block to still greater things in the North American marine industry.
| May 15, 2023 | Shipping Technology
Reducing attack surface is key to shoring up security, expert says.
| May 15, 2023 | Logistics | Shipping Technology
Moving freight, especially moving freight internationally, has always engendered complexities that demanded technological solutions.
| May 15, 2023 | Maritime | Breakbulk News | Ports & Terminals | Ports
BremenInvest, the investment and business promoting agency of the North German city of Bremen, touts Bremen’s ports as the “region’s engine for trade and industry”
| May 15, 2023 | Maritime | Breakbulk News | By The Numbers
A year ago, the MPV and container sectors were riding a wave of optimism resulting from pandemic related issues including a supply chain crisis like we’d never seen before.
| May 15, 2023 | Energy | Alternative | Green Shipping | Project / Heavy Lift | Maritime Project
As turbines grow in size, few vessels in the worldwide fleet can accommodate them.
| May 15, 2023 | International Trade | Commodity | Maritime | Breakbulk News
But with global economies slowing, where will it end up?
| April 26, 2023 | Maritime | Liner Shipping | By The Numbers
A comprehensive 2023 ranking of container carriers put together by the American Journal of Transportation.
| April 19, 2023 | International Trade
Can “nearshoring” help relieve the continual growth struggles in Latin America?
| April 19, 2023 | Logistics | Integrators
Despite its self-described title as the “world’s largest air freight forwarder,” DHL doesn’t rely on self-promotional brute strength to dominate markets globally.
| April 19, 2023 | Air Cargo | Freighters
Tackling the challenges to the air freight industry is Airforwarder Association’s (AFA) Executive Director Brandon Fried’s job — and he has a radar screen full of issues in his air space.
| April 19, 2023 | Ports & Terminals | Ports
Supply chain, capacity and decarbonization are key challenges being addressed.
| April 19, 2023
There is a maritime renaissance building in the Northeast Corridor (NEC). A quick visit to any one of a more than a dozen small ports along the Corridor’s long coastline and even up the Hudson River, there is activity —activity that no one would have imagined a couple of decades ago.
| April 19, 2023 | Logistics
A shift away from e-commerce sees more development at the periphery of metro areas; higher wages help attract workers to new facilities.
| April 19, 2023 | Ports & Terminals | Ports
Service reliability is more important, says port official; intermodal growth could get NYNJ to top spot
| April 19, 2023 | International Trade
The NEC, or as French-Ukraine geographer Jean Gottmann dubbed the Northeast Atlantic coast region in his 1961 study “The Megalopolis”, is one of the world’s greatest economic zones.
| April 19, 2023 | Maritime | Liner Shipping
It’s against the Shipping Act, in some circumstances, for carriers to require shippers to use specific chassis providers.
| April 19, 2023 | Maritime | Liner Shipping | By The Numbers
Chris Jones is EVP of industry and services at Descartes-Datamyne, a company that produces high quality trade intelligence, particularly on international ocean container shipping. In an interview with the AJOT, Jones lends his interpretation to the data concerning some notable shipping trends.
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