New Rule to Thwart Railroad Efforts to Cut Train Crews to 1 July 28, 2022 By Josh Funk MAHA, Neb. (AP) — Railroads will be required to maintain two-person crews under a new rule announced Wednesday that will...
Terminals at California’s Third-Busiest Port Resume Regular Hours July 26, 2022 By Lisa Baertlein Marine terminals at California’s Port of Oakland opened for normal operations on Monday after port leaders and police ended a...
Ship Insurers Seek More Assurances on Ukraine Grain Corridor July 21, 2022 LONDON –– Insurers will only be willing to cover ships sailing through a proposed corridor to get Ukrainian grain out...
Ships Get Older and Slower as Emissions Rules Bite July 11, 2022 By Sarah McFarlane LONDON —If shipping is the beating heart of global trade, its pulse is about to get slower. Faced with uncertainty...
At Least 49 Dead in 2nd Day Of Bangladesh Cargo Depot Fire June 6, 2022 By Julhas Alam DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A massive fire at a container depot near a port city in southeastern Bangladesh killed at...
Russian Oil’s Achilles’ Heel: Insurance May 25, 2022 By Jonathan Saul, Nidhi Verma, Yuka Obayashi and Carolyn Cohn LONDON/NEW DELHI/TOKYO —Russia has so far deflected much of the impact of sanctions on its oil trade but the insurance...
East Coast Ports Rushed to Attract Mega Ships. Now, One Is Stuck Outside D.C. March 22, 2022 By Augusta Saraiva The $5.25 billion expansion of the Panama Canal doubled its capacity in 2016, allowing the world’s largest cargo ships to...
War in Ukraine Puts Shipping’s Recovery in Jeopardy March 10, 2022 By K. Oanh Ha, Ann Koh, Devika Krishna Kumar and Verity Ratcliffe Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has the shipping industry bracing for new shocks to its labor force, which relies on...
Sovcomflot’s Tankers Find Refuge in the Bahamas Amid Growing Sanctions March 8, 2022 By Marianna Parraga HOUSTON —At least three tankers controlled by Russian maritime powerhouse Sovcomflot FLOT.MM that have been unable to deliver their cargoes...
As Ukraine Evacuates Trapped Seafarers, Foreign Mariners Count Cost of War March 7, 2022 By Jonathan Saul and Ruma Paul LONDON/DHAKA —Bangladeshi seafarer Asiful Islam recalls the moment when a missile struck his cargo ship last week off the Ukrainian...