We’re fast approaching what’s known as the peak season for international shipping. Traditionally, August and September are huge months for the ...

A couple weeks ago, I posted an article about what AI “thinks” about international shipping. It contained a “conversation” I had with AI, where I asked ...

If you’re importing from Asia right now, there’s a high chance you’re experiencing or about to experience delays in getting your cargo. It’s likely an ...

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

It looks like the practices of ocean carriers during the pandemic and the resulting record-high freight rates have caught the attention of American and ...

Transpacific shipping is strong right now. Despite predictions by experts earlier in the year that 2020 would see no international shipping peak season, ...

International shipping in 2021 continues right where 2020 left off. That sentence sounds obvious, but what it means is an abnormal start to the year when ...

Transpacific freight rates, and freight rates in general, were astronomical in 2020, rising and rising until, at last, they reached a plateau around the ...

We continue today with a series taking a deep dive into the outlook of international shipping in 2021. Part 1 focused on high ocean freight rates, cargo ...

Does the Jones Act have a negative impact on the economies of noncontiguous U.S. states and territories? We’ll look at arguments concerning just that, ...

The way ocean freight rates have skyrocketed in 2020 and into 2021, it became expected that the big U.S. shippers – the beneficial cargo owners (BCOs) of ...

If you thought freight rates couldn’t get any higher, carriers responded with, “Hold my beer.” We often focus on transpacific freight rates, with ...