President Barack Obama has nominated former Rep. Dan Maffei to serve as a commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission, an independent federal agency. Maffei, a Democrat who represented the Syracuse area in Congress for two...
Read MoreAmid a historic decline in spot-market rates on containerized shipments from Asia to the U.S., the largest steamship lines plying the eastbound trade Friday suggested two rounds of rate increases on, Dec. 1 and Jan. 1, designed...
Read MoreThousands of workers brought Panama to a standstill on Tuesday as part of a national 24-hour strike to demand “justice for the poor,” including the right to unionize, an end to corruption and high living costs. Over 5,000 Panama...
Read MoreFrom Vessel Finder: Gantry crane crashed down on container ship Fortune Navigator in Ta Thuan Port in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam at around 23:00 local time on November 24. The accident occurred while the vessel was offloading...
Read MoreContainer workers at the Port of Rotterdam have voted to hold a series of 24-hour strikes in December and January in protest at possible job cuts, threatening to freeze the movement of goods through Europe’s largest port....
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