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US truck tonnage slipped slightly less than 1 percent in September, following hurricanes Harvey and Irma, but year-over-year data shows a significant long-term increase in freight volumes.

Retail shippers risk shipment delays and even seizures when they prioritize speed over product quality control.

“The Receita Federal is intent on pushing the pedal of pain down this week.”

It is difficult to plan for shipments with all the schedule changes and with no real visibility solutions allowing shippers to find and manage their cargo.

Bharat Mala supplements the much publicized Sagar Mala program.

Improvements are aimed at handling larger ships that have increased the port’s volume.

The United States is the largest market for Brazilian coffee exports.

DP World’s growth rates topped this year’s 5.5 percent global throughput increase forecast by Drewry Maritime Research.

Bangladeshi shipping officials are hopeful that a surge of inland waterway capacity will drastically cut shipper costs and congestion.

Exports from Europe were delayed for weeks from February as capacity tightened.

Dirk Visser, senior shipping consultant and managing editor at Dynamar, sees improvement in the breakbulk and project cargo industry.

The move is in response to signs that carriers are moving away from providing gensets.

Carriers will enjoy a profitable 2017, but whether that will continue is dependent on shipping lines maintaining disciplined capacity management.

Final draft of strict clean air plan to be presented to LA-LB harbor commissions on Nov. 2.

Asian cargo is the fastest-growing segment of growth for the Northeast Florida port.

Concerns over the supply of truck drivers and the resulting increases in trucking rates will likely grow in the coming months.

Solid container growth at the Port of Antwerp was not enough to close the gap on rival Rotterdam that has managed to boost its transshipment business.

Japan’s logistics industry continues to pour money into Myanmar’s Thilawa special economic zone.

“Carriers have to be willing to concede that there is interplay between the long-term contract, and spot rate customers, and that rate actions taken in the spot market can negatively impact contract shippers.”

The cost for shipping from Novorossiysk to Istanbul has fallen substantially.

The official said four companies have met pre-selection conditions under the new tender.

By 2020, hub ports in Europe can expect the vast majority of all calls to be made by ships with a capacity greater than 14,000 TEU.

How the Port of New York and New Jersey handles the ramp up in business will go a long way in determining the port’s future growth.

US contractors, manufacturers, suppliers, and US-flag ocean carriers say Ex-Im Bank is essential if US-based companies are to compete with more than 60 other nations that provide export credit.

With the peak-shipping season drawing to a close, spot rates on US imports from Asia basically flatlined.

"Relentless" investment in equipment, higher driver pay help boost capacity, revenue, profit for Werner.

Los Angeles-Long Beach market share has eroded steadily since 2002.

APL is expanding its intra-Asia footprint and has teamed up with a sister company to launch a new Korea service.

The Cosco-OOCL takeover and the merger of Japan's three carriers into ONE show two very different approaches to M&A.

With just two months left of the year, carriers trying to turn around the steady rate decline on Asia-Europe are battling against a structural overcapacity undermining all attempts at increasing rates.

YRC Worldwide was hit by two hurricanes and a wave of rising transportation costs in the third quarter, forcing it to lower its projected operating profit for 2017.

Port officials are evaluating the best ways to keep capacity above demand.

Truck driver wages and benefits grew for the fourth straight year in 2016.

Although the gain is encouraging for public ports, the threat private ports pose to their market share remains.

Optimism has been in short supply for breakbulk and project carriers.

CSX Transportation’s overhaul of its network ultimately may benefit shippers.

The shuttle plugs a gap in south Brazilian logistical networks that emerged seven years ago.

The shipping industry is about to register a significant milestone.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will soon release the final draft of an update to its historic Clean Air Action Plan.

Congestion problems at Prince Rupert continue to plague beneficial cargo owners after six weeks.