If you’ve tried to purchase a back-ordered item or kept up with our retail and trade coverage, you already know about the global supply chain challenges and shipping traffic jams. As of Monday, there ...

JON FRIEDMAN: So we see a lot of communities all around the world who don't have access to fresh local food. And what that means is they don't have a range of crops in their diet. They don't have, ...

From a vantage point over the freight industry, it can be argued that international trade owes a lot of its growth to the humble intermodal shipping container. Pioneered and made mainstream in the ...

Managing overseas freight remains one of the most demanding parts of running a growing business, especially without a ...

Managing the price risk in shipping containers has become paramount as cargo owners look to hedge the cost of freight, which can account for up to 20% of cargo value. New freight futures contracts ...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. , March 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Logistics payment platform, PayCargo, and Gnosis Freight, a leading provider of supply chain visibility and execution software for shipping ...

Ship diversions from the Red Sea due to attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels have caused container freight rates to increase by about 30% in recent weeks. This rise is expected to continue as ...

Disruption to supply chains triggered by the impacts of Covid-19 has ignited a worldwide shipping crisis, with prices of shipments skyrocketing due to a shortage of containers. Often headlined as the ...

April 26, 1956, is widely regarded as a key date in the history of container shipping when standardised containers were first used to transport cargo by sea. The converted tanker ‘Ideal X’, which ...

SINGAPORE, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Global container shipping rates have surged to records on a spike in restocking demand in the United States and Europe, container scarcity at export hubs, and changes in ...