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The struggling multipurpose shipping sector shouldn’t count on a rebound in container and dry-bulk rates for a quick return to profitability.

Steel is the world’s most important industrial material and has direct and indirect impact on breakbulk volumes.

APM Terminals and Maersk Line have joined a consortium that is bidding to develop a new container terminal in Colombo.

Four port operators have until Feb. 3, 2017, to submit economic proposals to design, build, and operate a container transshipment terminals near Corozal, at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal.

The collapse of Hanjin Shipping has underscored the increasingly high stakes in the project cargo and breakbulk business, which can be risky even in the best of times.

A new Russian system of customs clearance for cargo passing through the country’s seaports has led to delays and higher costs for shippers.

Upward of 20,000 empty Hanjin containers remain scattered throughout Southern California with no place to go.

Hanjin Shipping cannot require payment from exporters who find another carrier to move cargo that the South Korean carrier was unable to deliver, a US bankruptcy court judge has ruled.

The committee is scheduled to meet Oct. 23 to determine whether the 0.5 percent global cap should take effect in 2020 or be postponed till 2025.

A greater customer emphasis on control over deliveries means e-commerce companies and shippers will increasingly pressure their transportation partners to provide the visibility and flexibility needed to enable that control.

DP World Australia has ordered four ship-to-shore cranes for its terminals on the east coast of Australia.

Ports from Miami to Hampton Roads resumed cargo operations Monday.

Schneider National, family-owned since 1935, plans a financial lane change in 2017.

Productivity and capacity improvements via the government's Sagar Mala investments are beginning to produce results.

Hanjin's bankruptcy has shown that it is not only shippers that need to pay attention to the financial state of their chosen carriers, alliance members also need to keep an eye on their partners.

The most dynamic expansion in industrial real estate in the United States is happening in so-called second-tier markets with close access to big population centers.

Shippers want assurance from ocean carrier alliances that there are emergency plans in place if one of their container lines can’t deliver its own cargo and that of its member partners.

Finding and shutting down bad trucking operators remains a challenge for US regulators, as the case of a Georgia company ordered off the road Friday shows.

Shippers must be keenly aware of the financial health of their container lines, and the alliance partners of those lines, if they want avoid the type of widespread disruption experienced during the collapse of Hanjin Shipping.

Exports of all kinds have been lackluster the past year because of the strong dollar, so any anitpathy towards them is likely to have an impact.

A federal judge on Friday ordered Hanjin Shipping to reveal when vessels it operates go off charter, opening them up to arrest should they enter US waters without paying off liens held against them.

NYK Line on Friday announced that it expects to book extraordinary losses of nearly $2 billion.

Peak season 2016 has finally arrived, and it looks like it will be short but sweet.

Hanjin Group chairman Cho Yang-ho spreads the blame for the demise of South Korea’s largest container line.

Seattle and Tacoma, which since last year have operated under the Northwest Seaport Alliance, rank fourth in the US as a port complex, but that could change if it continues to lose cargo.

After two months of job creation, trucking employment numbers dropped in September, another indication of slow freight demand and excess truckload capacity.

Vietnam is planning a major new port facility to alleviate congestion at the Da Nang Port complex.

For years, ports have pushed to ensure that all Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund collections are used for dredging and not diverted to other uses.

Several trades out of Asia are in line for rate increases as carriers try to lift prices during the low season months.

The American Trucking Associations has spurned a proposal it lobbied hard to get: a mandate that trucks be fitted with speed limiters.

Hanjin Shipping on Thursday gave US importers awaiting the discharge of their stranded goods a better idea of when some ships will call at a US port.

XPO Logistics will spend $425 million this year on technology to get the most out of diverse international operations and optimize customer supply chains, says CEO Bradley S. Jacobs.

Hyundai Merchant Marine announced Thursday commencement of a new trans-Pacific service.

The Port of Brisbane on Tuesday began work on a wide-ranging roadwork project.

Among the services that MIT Safetrans provides are the commissioning of MRI machines and ATMs.

Canadian customs is partnering with forwarders to determine where bottlenecks are in cargo clearance and how to remove them.

The container booking cancellation fee appears to be making its way back into container lines’ overflowing surcharge box — much to the disdain of shippers.

The Port of Rotterdam is aiming to expand its reach into the central European hinterland via containerized rail.

Shippers of meats, furniture, tobacco, would chips, shoes, and resins and petrochemicals will be the biggest beneficiaries from the service.

PIL is the latest of a series of global transportation and logistics service providers seeking new growth opportunities in India.