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Agency Chairman Laura DiBella said the “intensified inspections” of the vessels appear to be retaliation for Panama canceling the port concessions held at Balboa and Cristóbal by a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based Hutchison.

Wary of potential US actions to undermine the agreement, EU lawmakers inserted three clauses into the deal that provide “strong and clear safeguards.”

The deals come as regional rate indices are trending at multi-month highs for key markets including Southeast Asia, South Korea, Japan, and China.

Suppliers and manufacturers are unwilling to make long-lead investments in next-gen nuclear projects without credible signals that the demand for them exists, according to a new report.

Several regional carriers, typically second- and third-rung players in the industry, have opened new dedicated shuttle services connecting Nhava Sheva and Mundra in India to the Middle East/Persian Gulf corridor.

Gateway Terminals named Bryan Blalock as its next president after Georgia Ports hired the stevedore’s current leader to be its next CEO.

Rolf Habben Jansen told reporters that most of the new costs were coming from rising bunker fuel prices, with other areas such as insurance, container storage and inland transportation adding millions of dollars to weekly expenses.

The announced cuts come one month after WiseTech Global said it would be laying off 30% of its workforce over the next two years, also in an AI-related move.

The French liner is implementing changes to its Epic and Medex services due to operational complications caused by the war in the Persian Gulf.

An estimated 30% of Asia-Europe air cargo is routed via the Middle East, so the sudden closure of airspace in the Persian Gulf has left forwarders scrambling for capacity on freighters and passenger aircraft out of Asia.

Stocks that were already in the fuel supply chain and en route to refueling hubs when the Middle East conflict started have now been delivered, and those ports are running down their inventories.

The American Trucking Associations’ February truck tonnage report showed a 2.6% month-over-month increase, making it the largest sequential gain in three years.

TotalEnergies accepted a $1 billion payment from the Trump administration to walk away from two offshore wind projects and instead reinvest the funds in fossil fuel projects along the Gulf Coast.

Ocean carriers have a stronger financial backstop than past downcycles after having retired significant debt and increasing their profitability in the last five years post-pandemic, writes Executive Editor Mark Szakonyi.

The Iran-driven fuel spike has created the widest intermodal cost advantage in years, but capturing it — and keeping it — requires something railroads have rarely practiced: orchestrated intermodal, writes Paul Tonsager.

Union Pacific for the second time in five weeks is resetting freight-all-kinds rates on key lanes for rail-owned boxes used by intermodal marketing companies.

Houston and New Orleans are coming off a year of growth for project cargo volumes, albeit with a drop in steel imports, and both ports anticipate a continuation of those trends.

The carrier alliance will shake up its Asia-Europe network in April with Busan becoming the focus of its North Asia trade and direct calls ending to ports in Japan and Taiwan.

The decision means CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk and Zim will be forced to wait until early April before implementing surcharges designed to recoup higher operating costs associated with the war in the Middle East.

 Reefer shipments into the port, while still small, have been growing faster than overall cargo, forcing port officials to deal with more long-dwelling containers. 

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is the latest disruption to global shipping, highlighting once again that the market would rather ride out the problem than pay for the resilience that could bring relief, analyst Lars Jensen writes.

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has cut off a major source of global resin supply, teeing up US production to fill in some of the gap.

The latest quarterly results show that FedEx’s less-than-truckload division is struggling with lackluster industrial demand, but a change in strategy after a planned June spinoff could provide different results.

The move comes just days after a joint venture between the two companies was selected as the preferred bidder to develop a $1.8 billion container terminal in Da Nang.

Market sources say an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 TEUs have landed at Indian ports thus far, with Nhava Sheva (JNPA) terminals alone accounting for 25,000 TEUs of discharges.

China’s largest shipping company commented on current geopolitical events as it released its 2025 financial results, which saw net profits plummet 38%.

Norfolk’s dredging to a 55-foot depth will allow ocean carriers to offer more capacity on big ships that have to load lightly due to draft constraints.

Containers that were inbound when the war started have been plugged into reefer slots in terminals outside the Gulf, accruing mounting storage charges as cargo owners either wait for the Strait of Hormuz to reopen or start looking for new markets

The multi-pronged program includes reflagging four of the carrier’s container ships to the Indian registry and participating in terminal infrastructure development at Vadhavan.

Delilah’s Law, a major crackdown on immigrants in the trucking industry, was passed 35 to 26 by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and now heads to a floor vote.

Changing market dynamics offer an opportunity for motor carriers to raise rates, but also for intermodal providers to win business from cost-conscious shippers looking to shift modes.

The most disruptive energy shock in modern history has reawakened the debate over whether emergency fuel surcharges are a fair way for ocean carriers to recoup unexpected costs or blatant “double-dipping” that angers shippers.

Signs of stress are emerging as boxes pour into a land transport network crucial for the flow of cargo across the war-torn region.

The terminal, capable of ultimately handling 5.7 million TEUs annually, will be the global terminal operator’s third in Vietnam.

Broad use of Section 301 tariffs, with 60 US trading partners now being scrutinized, provides a window into the administration’s next phase of tariff applications as it seeks to redefine US trade.

The recent increase in intermodal share in the face of declining West Coast share is intriguing, and it might be signaling a more significant change in the situation, writes Larry Gross.

After a pause in trans-Pacific service contract negotiations caused by the war in the Middle East, talks are expected to move forward now that the largest US retailer has concluded some of its agreements.

The Meridian Speedway dispute is important because it’s one of the primary routes where a combined Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern railroad would look to take market share from truckload.

The UP-NS merger and ONE’s Seaspan stake look like separate deals in separate industries, but they are the same move, writes Paul Tonsager.

An estimated 30% of Asia-Europe air cargo capacity is routed via the Middle East, and with options through the region severely constrained by the US-Iran war, a rush for Asia-Europe air cargo capacity is pushing up prices.