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Hapag-Lloyd said there’s a 72-hour wait at Shanghai’s Yangshan deepwater port for vessels operating Gemini services, while ships operating non-Gemini services are having to wait six days before being able to berth.

On a second-quarter earnings call, company officials said tightening driver availability, increased regulatory enforcement and rising operating costs are removing capacity from the market faster than freight demand is growing.

Trade between Europe and its partners continues to adjust to the ever-changing geopolitical environment, and that uncertainty is being felt in the port’s container handling business.

The pressure remains far less severe than the shortages that disrupted inland supply chains during the pandemic, but after nearly four years of relative stability, truckers and rail workers say equipment gaps are emerging.

Three executives told a webinar they have great expectations for 2027, but shippers keep raising the performance bar.

Imports of hardware and infrastructure components for data center buildouts are keeping volumes steady, although masking weakness in the consumer merchandise sector, sources say.

Air freight carriers are scrambling to address the demand, injecting capacity into the fast-growing corridors out of Southeast Asia and Taiwan.

There’s still value to being a shipper of choice in the truckload sector, but the relationship needs to deliver deeper value on both sides of the carrier-shipper aisle.

The rebound offset a sluggish first quarter for Evergreen Marine, Yang Ming and Wan Hai, with a Yang Ming executive saying he expects the buoyant rate outlook to continue into the third quarter.

Los Angeles and its terminal operator tenants are offering up to $300,000 per truck for drayage operators purchasing at least 10 battery-electric vehicles.

The revision follows a similar move by Gemini Cooperation partner Maersk as frontloading on the trans-Pacific and Asia–Europe trades fills ships and drives up rates.

The president announced the about-face in a post on his social media platform, saying the US would instead be reimbursed for providing naval security in the region via trade deals with Gulf states.

The strong second-quarter performance is a clear indication of the financial rewards carriers are reaping from frontloading on the two main trades out of Asia.

Ocean carriers are increasing penalties for canceling orders and not delivering containers for services connecting India to Europe and North America.

While the port says the new terminal will not be needed for a decade, work needs to start now to be ready for future volume growth.

For fleets, the emissions-related proposal announced Thursday changes the economics of purchasing equipment, but it is not likely to fundamentally change the economics of adding capacity, analysts say.

Despite the current absorption effects of geopolitics and network disruption, the volume of tonnage coming online over the next two years is likely to overwhelm the market, a Journal of Commerce webinar was told.

Breakbulk carriers are investing in tonnage to help address an aging fleet profile, although the ordering is being done with “discipline” to maintain a balanced fleet.

After representing clerical workers in Southern California for decades, the ILWU Office Clerical Unit has successfully organized the terminal operator’s clerical workers in Utah as it launches a move to inland locations.

The restructuring injects new capital into the Ohio-based company just as the prolonged freight recession is ending and pricing power has swung back toward carriers.

But as the US-Iran ceasefire collapses, ocean carriers are on alert for any hostile response from the Tehran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen.

As it becomes a standalone company, the largest US LTL provider seeks to leapfrog legacy technologies that are focused more on packages and parcels.

A roundtable discussion of industry experts hosted by the Journal of Commerce saw agreement that demand fundamentals remain strong, but beneath the positive outlook lie growing concerns.

Sources in India told the Journal of Commerce ONE has agreed to charter about 500 TEUs of slot space per week on Hapag-operated ships working the trade lane.

The $6 million influx into UK-based artificial intelligence technology provider Nexcade comes as the cost of building AI tools is likely to rise in the coming years.

But this month will be the end of an early peak season that began in May and increased in intensity, according to the Global Port Tracker, with imports for August through November expected to be lower year over year.

The modest growth in domestic volumes the market has seen this year to date should be well within the sector’s capabilities to handle, but it’s far too soon to “declare victory,” writes Larry Gross.

The Sharjah-based company is the third port operator in the UAE to embark on an end-to-end logistics journey, following its larger Dubai-based neighbor DP World and Abu Dhabi-based AD Ports.

The agreement follows a series of concessions between carrier-controlled terminal operators and Vietnamese companies in the last few years to develop port facilities at Lach Huyen.

The integrator’s positive earnings momentum was led by its air cargo-focused Express division that saw pre-tax profit increase 63% year over year in the quarter.

With a recent investment commitment from current majority owner China Merchants Port Holdings, Hambantota’s annual box-handling capacity is expected to double to 2 million TEUs by the end of the year.

Investment in alternative fuels and electric trucks remains constrained by high upfront costs, infrastructure limits and the difficulty of passing green premiums on to customers, industry leaders say.

There’s little to no sign truckload rate hikes are slowing post-July 4, as tight capacity keeps pricing elevated headed into what’s typically a slower season.

Ocean carriers are reinjecting significant new tonnage between Asia and the east coast of South America after pulling ships away to serve an early Asia-Europe peak season.

Spot prices have more than doubled on Asia–Mediterranean routes and almost tripled from Asia to North Europe since the beginning of May.

The carrier called the move ‘a structural change’ but said contingency plans included a return to Africa transits should the security situation deteriorate.

The proposed merger of Union Pacific Railroad and Norfolk Southern Railway would create a single-line rail network that could shift discretionary cargo to Charleston and other underused East Coast infrastructure, writes rail analyst Paul Tonsager.

Equipment acquisitions for heavy-lift cargo handling need to go together with investment in technical expertise, asset providers warn.

As truckload capacity in the US gets tighter and rates move higher, more freight is being shifted to less-than-truckload providers — something that will continue, attendees at the SMC3 Connections conference were told.

With fresh capacity landing on the West Coast, sources say spot rates could start to soften after a four-month bull run driven by cargo frontloading and higher bunker fuel prices.