U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) should improve its guidance and identify additional actions its personnel could take to reduce crated cargo risks, a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says. Non-containerized cargo—like ...

Shipping nations stepped away from voting to adopt widely expected global regulations that would have helped slash emissions. What happens now?

The National Transportation Safety Board is set to vote on its findings into what caused a massive container ship to crash last year into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed and kill

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) will present Cargo in Question: Two Films about Labor, Shipping, and Globalization in the 21 st Century, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 20 at 113 Harbor Way, Ste. 190. Still image from film about cargo shipping. Credit ...

In a recent column in The Hill, the authors contend that preserving and bolstering cargo preference requirements — the law requiring U.S. shippers to use U.S. flagged vessels to transport “government-impelled ocean-borne cargo” — is crucial to ...

Container shipping lines are expected to maintain lengthy African routing for now despite Houthi militia ceasefire

Singapore, Asia's oil hub, received a rare fuel oil cargo from Djibouti in the past week, Enterprise Singapore data showed on Thursday, likely the city-state's first ever import from the African country. About 99,678 tonnes of fuel oil that arrived in the ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) today announced the launch of newly-accredited, web-based training courses on cargo preference laws and regulations. The courses were developed in collaboration with Defense ...

The regional plan aims to shield economies from global supply chain