It’s difficult to imagine precisely what Washington’s end game might be with the recent imposition of tariffs on Canadian, Mexican, and European steel and aluminum imports. When the US administration initially floated the idea in spring 2017, it did so on the grounds that the dearth of manufacturing in the United States posed a threat to national security interests. At the time, few observers believed national security interests were really at play, with most speculating it was simply a populist administration attempting to find a convenient, legal loophole to push through a “Buy American” agenda. <h2>Several theories regarding the Trump...

The Trump administration’s trade policy has taken more twists and turns than an Agatha Christie detective novel. And so have the administration’s philosophical justifications for it.&nbsp;

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The lack of security around the supply of alternative fuels in a highly fragmented market will undermine ocean carrier efforts to decarbonize the industry, according to the world’s largest container ship owner.

Vineyard Wind is one of the first commercial-scale offshore wind projects under construction in the US and at completion will generate some 800 megawatts of power. 

The railroad is reducing demurrage fees and restoring additional free time that was eliminated in the past two years as international intermodal volumes have fallen sharply from East Coast ports.

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