This is a guest post by Shawn Mack. Shipping Containers Picture: https://unsplash.com/photos/tjX_sniNzgQ While the idea of shipping goods is quite an old ...

How about a positive headline for 2020? It’s a great year for ocean freight carriers in the international shipping industry. Transpacific cargo volume ...

The last post was about how nobody knows anything about what will happen with the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) contract negotiations, ...

U.S. agricultural exporters are getting screwed. All the international shipping attention in the U.S. seems focused on importing rather than ...

Shippers importing goods from anywhere in the world – but especially China and other Asian countries – should expect to experience delays and fees. ...

71 U.S. agricultural industry groups teamed up to write a letter to President Biden, informing him of the injury ocean freight carriers are doing to US ...

As the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach hit record volumes of imports for March and freight rates reached a new peak, experts are telling us that the ...

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) made a regulation move concerning ocean freight carriers. It’s actually a bit of deregulation when it comes to ...

This is a guest post by Marcus Dokken. International trade was, and still is, one of the main drivers of economic expansion. We might even say ...

A couple blogs ago, I wrote about three ways ocean freight rates could see a significant drop. One of those ways was if regulators break up the carrier ...

Today, we continue our look at governmental pressure on the international shipping industry. Having watched carrier competition shrink over the last ...

Their supply chains shaking and rattling, shippers wake up in cold sweats. If not dark, the horizon is hazy, impossible to see what lies ahead. But ...