Georgia Agency Awards Contract to Raise Savannah Bridge to Accommodate Bigger Cargo Ships January 5, 2024 By Russ Bynum SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The Georgia Department of Transportation said Wednesday it has chosen a general contractor to oversee a...
Houthi Attacks Push Shipping Giants to Pause Red Sea Voyages December 15, 2023 By Alaric Nightingale and Sanne Wass Spiraling attacks on merchant ships by Houthi militants off the coast of Yemen have prompted widespread trade disruption with some...
Viewpoint: Unseaworthy Vessels One Reason Containers are Lost at Sea November 28, 2022 By Glenn Mathias The World Shipping Council reported that for 2020-2021, the two-year average annual loss of containers overboard was 3,113 units. That...
California Oil Spill Cause Probed, Ship Anchor Cited as Possibility October 5, 2021 By Daniel Trotta HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — More oil from a massive offshore spill landed on the southern California shore on Monday, with...
Insurer of Ship That Blocked Suez Canal Says Reduced Claim Still High May 11, 2021 CAIRO — UK Club, an insurer of the container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March, said on Monday...
Egyptian Court Rejects Appeal Against Detention of Ship in Suez Canal May 5, 2021 By Jim Sams CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Tuesday ruled that the container ship which blocked the Suez Canal in March could...
Shipping Containers Fall Overboard at Fastest Rate in Seven Years April 27, 2021 By Ann Koh Containers piled high on giant vessels carrying everything from car tires to smartphones are toppling over at an alarming rate,...
‘Beached Whale’ Ship Could Block Suez Canal for Weeks March 25, 2021 By Yusri Mohamed, Gavin Maguire and Florence Tan ISMAILIA, Egypt — A container ship blocking the Suez Canal like a “beached whale” may take weeks to free, the...
Supply Bottlenecks Leave Ships Stranded, Businesses Stymied March 23, 2021 By Joyce M. Rosenberg NEW YORK (AP) — A trade bottleneck born of the COVID-19 outbreak has U.S. businesses anxiously awaiting goods from Asia...
Global Cargo Logjam Deepens, Delaying Goods Bound For Retailers, Automakers December 23, 2020 By Lisa Baertlein and Jonathan Saul LOS ANGELES/LONDON — Amazon seller Bernie Thompson shifted half of his production out of China to reduce his business risks...