ocean box shipping

The pandemic is driving people to drink more. Bulk ocean shipments of wine in flexitanks are up 30% this year.

Listed carriers are poised to post stellar third-quarter numbers on higher rates and volumes.

U.S. importers now paying three times more per mile than Europeans for transport of Chinese goods.

CMA CGM bonds that traded at 55 cents on the dollar in March are now trading near par.

New normal for container shipping: active capacity management and digital spot bookings.

Ports on the Atlantic are losing imports from Europe as well as Asia.

A new interview with AgTC’s Peter Friedmann on how China COVID fears affect U.S. food exports.

“Optics” are bad but freight pricing doesn’t appear to meet regulatory bar for intervention.

Liners could scrape bottom over next two months, then recover.

Coronavirus left containers scattered in the wrong ports. Liner companies are trying to get them back into position.

An exclusive interview with SIA Flexitanks CEO Damien McClean on what’s happening right now with Chinese manufacturing, trucking and ports.

No evidence yet of a rush to expedite exports ahead of feared price increase.

The number of containers is a better bellwether of global trade than the number of container ships.

In this commentary by Ekim Saribardak, he writes about new track and trace technologies that can revolutionize the shipment of ocean freight.

Market expert Brian Aoaeh writes about the new Digital Shipping Container Alliance and why standards are important to industry. He also writes about why getting standards written and adopted is particularly difficult.