Spot ocean freight rates from the Far East to the U.S. popped between 36%-41% month over month, and ocean carriers increased additional charges known as general rate increases by roughly 140%, ...

The downward trend in ocean freight volumes that began in 2022 continued last year, with many major ports reporting declines in throughput of containerized cargo. Transport Topics’ updated Top 25 list ...

A perfect storm in global trade is creating a shipping container capacity crunch, fueling a sudden and surprise spike in ocean freight rates. The beginning of peak shipping season, coupled with the ...

With weakness in its ocean freight business, Expeditors International turned in a fourth quarter 2025 performance that was weaker in several key financial benchmarks than a year earlier. Ocean freight ...

It takes great skill in managing assets and planning long term to succeed as an ocean freight carrier. New ships are expensive, take several years to build and sail for decades. This type of long-term ...

Not a subscriber? Apply online today. As firms deploy their inventories across multiple continents to serve growing markets, the costs of transportation and the direct impact of transportation modal ...

Ocean freight rates from Asia to the U.S. have begun to decline, providing some relief for U.S. shippers. But cargo shipping costs are still massively up since December 14 when the Red Sea crisis ...

The global movement of goods via ocean freight has, thus far, remained largely unshaken by the war in Iran-though the impacts ...

The CEO of Hapag-Lloyd tells CNBC inventories are depleted in many cases and the ocean carrier has seen a recovery after Chinese New Year. Due to the ongoing Houthi attack issues in the Red Sea and ...

Just as the Federal Reserve and U.S. economy get good news on inflation, with consumer prices and wholesale prices softening, a major global trade inflation indicator is headed in the wrong direction.

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