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December 17, 2018
West Coast ports point to a strong holiday season and a rush to beat tariffs as reasons for near record-breaking import volumes in November 2018. The Port of Oakland had its busiest November ever for imports.
December 17, 2018
The prospect of unmanned container vessels serving global container supply chains took another step forward today.
December 17, 2018
In the retail sector, artificial intelligence (AI) represents a $300 billion opportunity for those companies able to scale deployments across the entire value chain.
December 17, 2018
As of Dec. 11, 2018, 266 ships representing 2.2 million TEUs have been fitted with scrubbers, Drewry Maritime Consultants wrote in their Container Insight Weekly analysis.
December 13, 2018
The Trump administration is making official its decision to delay until March 1 a tariff hike on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods to 25 percent from 10 percent, according to two people familiar with the matter.
December 11, 2018
On Monday, the Panama Canal welcomed its 5,000th Neopanamax vessel through the waterway, since opening its expanded locks in 2016.
December 11, 2018
Shippers serving the US import market may have already begun voting with their feet and moving production out of China in response to the looming threat of a full-blown trade war between the world’s largest two economies.
December 11, 2018
ASA strongly supports the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 and urges the House and Senate to approve it this week so it can be enacted before Congress adjourns for the year.
December 11, 2018
The U.S. is pressing ahead with plans to tighten restrictions on technology exports that some American companies fear could hurt research and development, even as President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping agreed to a 90-day truce aimed at alleviating a trade war.
December 10, 2018
COSCO Shipping Ports and Abu Dhabi Ports inaugurated today CSP Abu Dhabi Terminal at Khalifa Port, adding Abu Dhabi as the regional hub for COSCO’s global network of 36 ports as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.