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Yusen Logistics Expands Project Cargo Network to Brazil

Yusen Logistics Do Brasil Ltda. has established a dedicated project cargo team in Brazil.

WWL Opens Vehicle Processing Center at Tianjin FTZ

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), a global carrier of roll-on/roll-off cargoes and provider of logistics services, has opened a third vehicle processing center (VPC) in China.

Has Container Shipping Become a Commodity?

There was a time when ocean carriers fashioned themselves as providers of premium, door-to-door transportation. Not anymore.

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CaroTrans Launches LCL Service From Shanghai to Atlanta

CaroTrans, a global non-vessel operating common carrier and ocean freight consolidator, has launched an all-water, less-than-containerload import service form Shanghai to Atlanta, via the Port of Savannah, Ga.

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Longshoreman Pay Dwarfs That of Most Employees in Transportation Industry

More than 4,400 ships bring nearly $400bn worth of goods through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach every year, a crucial link in the global supply chain of factories, warehouses, docks, highways and rail lines. Most blue-collar workers along the chain have seen their wages slashed with the quick rise of global trade. But the longshoremen who move the goods the shortest distance, between ship and shore, have shrewdly protected pay that trumps that of many white-collar managers.

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The Grimaldi Group Enhances Med-West Africa Service

The Grimaldi Group has enhanced its Mediterranean Express (MEX) service, which links points in the Mediterranean to West Africa.

Container Shipping Today: Mega-Ships and Mega-Problems

If we're to believe the big container lines, ever-larger ships are the remedy for their financial woes. Why, then, are so many of them still losing money?

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Imports Continue to Rise as West Coast Ports Work on Backlog

Import cargo volume at the nation's major retail container ports is expected to rise an unusually high 16.9 percent this month over the same time last year as West Coast ports begin to dig out from a backlog of cargo that built up during just-concluded contract negotiations with dockworkers, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released today by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.

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Rates Expected to Continue to Drop This Year in Chemical Tanker Shipping

Chemical tanker shipping faces another challenging year of falling freight rates in 2015, but the trade is expected to recover next year, according to the latest edition of the Chemical Forecaster, published by global shipping consultancy Drewry.

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Hard Lessons in Disruption: What the West Coast Port Slowdown Really Taught Us

With a tentative agreement in place between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), the 7-month-long West Coast port crisis has come to an end. What comes next is the final body count - what percentage of GDP shrank because of the slowdown? What was the impact on the trade deficit? Who got hit hardest, and just how hard? Then what? There may be a collective sigh of relief in the air, but can things really go back to normal? Should they?

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Waking Up From the West Coast Port Nightmare: Where Do We Go From Here?

Assuming that the rank and file of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) ratifies the new five-year contract negotiated with terminal operators, West Coast ports can finally focus on getting container-handling operations back to normal. So is everyone happy?

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Moving Heavy Machinery in the Cloud

Challenge: With a supply chain spanning the farthest reaches of the globe, it wasn't uncommon for this heavy equipment manufacturer to lose sight of its shipments, resulting in frequent delivery delays and headaches for its dealers. Traditional point-to-point solutions were falling short in the supply chain.

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