With the vast majority of trans-Pacific eastbound contracts having been completed and signed, it should be time to sit back and relax. Not so fast, my friends, because events and issues are presenting us with more challenges.Start with those completed and signed trans-Pacific eastbound contracts: They’re not really done because, while there are clauses allowing for fuel surcharges related to the International Maritime Organization’s low-sulfur fuel requirements on Jan. 1, 2020, the real charges aren’t known yet and will have to be negotiated later in the year.Another curveball was thrown when sanctions against Iran tightened, sending the global price of...

A combination of rising fuel costs and softening demand combine to create an environment of great unknowns and challenges for container carriers and their shipper customers.

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Maersk to invest $500 million in Southeast Asia logistics even as integrator model struggles

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Fast-approaching green goals pose uncomfortable question for shipping: analyst

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The South Coast Air Quality Management District says it will create rules to reduce emissions at Southern California rail yards because Union Pacific insists on including public financing as a precondition for participating in the more collaborative MOU process.

The spending program will target the company’s logistics and services arm with a “substantial amount of investment” earmarked for its ocean and terminals infrastructure in the region.

The IMO’s global market-based emissions-cutting measure will be introduced in 2027 when it will clash with Europe’s ETS and could force shippers to comply —  and pay for —  two CO2-reducing systems at the same time, classification societies believe.

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