american shipper

1 min read 2022-07-01 08:33:54

Lawmakers plead for deal ahead of dockworker contract deadline

With the U.S. West Coast dockworker contract set to expire on Friday, lawmakers and shippers are getting increasingly nervous about the potential

4 min read 2022-06-30 23:02:29

At the height of last year’s “will Christmas be canceled?” supply chain freak-out, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach — with the Biden

3 min read 2022-06-30 02:18:47

When demand to transport cargo weakens, short-term rental rates decline for the ships that carry that cargo. When freight demand rises, lease rates

2 min read 2022-06-30 01:42:00

Container lines would receive unprecedented loading and unloading status at U.S. ports if new legislation aimed at prioritizing American exports

5 min read 2022-06-29 23:15:07

Pilots for FedEx Express are frustrated that they don’t have a new collective bargaining agreement in hand after more than a year of talks, while

3 min read 2022-06-29 21:44:55

Gulf Coast ports got a boost in May from strong container volumes, as well as imports of steel and plywood and exports of crude oil and petroleum

4 min read 2022-06-29 00:06:58

The jaws of the supply chain vise are squeezing trade so tight that the headache it is creating will be a whopper for logistics managers this peak

2 min read 2022-06-28 23:22:30

Silk Way West Airlines, an all-cargo carrier based in Azerbaijan, placed an order with Airbus on Tuesday for two A350 large freighters, moving from

2 min read 2022-06-28 19:19:17

Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer has received its first firm order for up to 10 conversions of the E190/E195 passenger jet to a freighter

6 min read 2022-06-28 05:22:37

For an alleged cartel that President Biden believes is deviously ripping off Americans, the container shipping oligopoly is sure doing a lousy job

2 min read 2022-06-28 03:30:00

Trailer Bridge inked a deal Monday for the terminal operator to stay at Jacksonville, Florida’s, Blount Island through at least 2041. The

2 min read 2022-06-28 00:26:38

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the Airbus A380’s demise are greatly exaggerated. Deutsche Lufthansa AG on Monday announced it will

2 min read 2022-06-27 21:11:21

A federal judge has ruled a $1.7 million shipping dispute between Kuehne + Nagel, the world’s largest air freight logistics provider, and oil

3 min read 2022-06-24 22:24:44

DB Schenker, the third-largest logistics provider in the world by revenue and a division of the national railway company of Germany, has agreed to

4 min read 2022-06-24 03:41:03

Trans-Pacific spot container shipping rates have crossed two bearish thresholds. It depends on which indexes you believe, but according to