ocean shipping

It's been a tumultuous 18 months for ocean shippers, with many feeling the pain of high spot rates and uncertain shipping times. However, one company is making moves that may ease some of the spot rate insanity.  On this episode of Navigate B2B, Steve Ferreira breaks down how spot rates have...

Israeli ocean carrier ZIM blew away all the analyst forecasts Wednesday, posting blockbuster earnings for its second quarter and revealing a massive increase in its full-year guidance. ZIM (NYSE: ZIM) has moved fast to squeeze the most short-term gain out of what CEO Eli Glickman described as "...

As skyrocketing rates squeeze importers and exporters scramble for containers, the push for government intervention is accelerating. What if the U.S. government does move to rein in foreign carriers? What if carrier alliances are broken up, detention and demurrage charges are curtailed, export...

Just days before a critical hearing before the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation about the crisis facing American importers, the Agriculture Transportation Coalition (AgTC) has submitted three legislative proposals to enforce the carriage of trade and excessive penalties U.S....

Even as the container shipping business tries to improve everything about itself from customer service all the way to its carbon output, one improvement that still eludes it is on-time reliability. A Danish startup founded by an industry veteran aims to help the industry raise the bar in that...

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Hope for a cease-fire in America's multi-front trade war has dimmed after a barrage of hawkish new U.S. statements toward China, France, Brazil and Argentina. For ocean shipping, fallout suffered in 2019 now appears likely to extend well in 2020 — not just in terms of lost demand, but also, lost...

Technology firm CargoSmart plans to work with one of the leading providers of data to the container shipping industry to develop an index measuring the reliability of ocean carriers. San Jose, CA-based CargoSmart signed a cooperation agreement with the Shanghai Shipping Exchange to create a...