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Bremen’s Neustadt port aggressively pushes breakbulk cargo traffic

BremenInvest, the investment and business promoting agency of the North German city of Bremen, touts Bremen’s ports as the “region’s engine for trade and industry”

Multipurpose sector facing some headwinds, but long-term outlook remains bullish

Edwin Bastian | May 15, 2023 | Maritime | Breakbulk News | By The Numbers

A year ago, the MPV and container sectors were riding a wave of optimism resulting from pandemic related issues including a supply chain crisis like we’d never seen before.

Offshore wind installation vessels – a coming shortage

As turbines grow in size, few vessels in the worldwide fleet can accommodate them.

China’s steel production spikes after lockdowns end

But with global economies slowing, where will it end up?

2023 Top 50 Ocean Container Carriers

AJOT Staff | April 26, 2023 | Maritime | Liner Shipping | By The Numbers

A comprehensive 2023 ranking of container carriers put together by the American Journal of Transportation.

Growing pain: Latin American economies struggling to find growth

George Lauriat | April 19, 2023 | International Trade

Can “nearshoring” help relieve the continual growth struggles in Latin America?

DHL temperature-control solutions key vaccine deliveries

Chris Barnett | April 19, 2023 | Logistics | Integrators

Despite its self-described title as the “world’s largest air freight forwarder,” DHL doesn’t rely on self-promotional brute strength to dominate markets globally.

AFA’s Fried takes on air freight industry issues

Chris Barnett | April 19, 2023 | Air Cargo | Freighters

Tackling the challenges to the air freight industry is Airforwarder Association’s (AFA) Executive Director Brandon Fried’s job — and he has a radar screen full of issues in his air space.

Ports in Eastern Canada maintain expansion plans amidst challenging times

Leo Ryan | April 19, 2023 | Ports & Terminals | Ports

Supply chain, capacity and decarbonization are key challenges being addressed.

Maritime renaissance

AJOT Staff | April 19, 2023

There is a maritime renaissance building in the Northeast Corridor (NEC). A quick visit to any one of a more than a dozen small ports along the Corridor’s long coastline and even up the Hudson River, there is activity —activity that no one would have imagined a couple of decades ago.

Northeast expanding warehouse inventory in response to cargo surge

Peter Buxbaum | April 19, 2023 | Logistics

A shift away from e-commerce sees more development at the periphery of metro areas; higher wages help attract workers to new facilities.

The Port of New York and New Jersey: Can it make it to number one?

Peter Buxbaum | April 19, 2023 | Ports & Terminals | Ports

Service reliability is more important, says port official; intermodal growth could get NYNJ to top spot

The Northeast Corridor – Money is the “M” in Megalopolis

George Lauriat | April 19, 2023 | International Trade

The NEC, or as French-Ukraine geographer Jean Gottmann dubbed the Northeast Atlantic coast region in his 1961 study “The Megalopolis”, is one of the world’s greatest economic zones.

FMC weighs in on reasonableness of ocean carrier chassis practices

Peter Buxbaum | April 19, 2023 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

It’s against the Shipping Act, in some circumstances, for carriers to require shippers to use specific chassis providers.

Descartes’ Chris Jones explains what’s behind the numbers

George Lauriat | April 19, 2023 | Maritime | Liner Shipping | By The Numbers

Chris Jones is EVP of industry and services at Descartes-Datamyne, a company that produces high quality trade intelligence, particularly on international ocean container shipping. In an interview with the AJOT, Jones lends his interpretation to the data concerning some notable shipping trends.

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