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OECD Lowers 2025-26 Global, US Forecast

Global economic prospects are weakening, with substantial barriers to trade, tighter financial conditions, diminishing confidence and heightened policy uncertainty projected to have adverse impacts on growth, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) latest Economic Outlook (https://tinyurl.com/mr3m6fbh). Global growth has slowed from 3.3 percent in 2024 to 2.9 percent in both 2025 and 2026. The slowdown is expected to be most concentrated in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and ... [+]

Port Milwaukee: Great Lakes Demonstrate Value

Benefitting from a major U.S. policy change, Port Milwaukee held an event June 16 to spotlight the vital role the Great Lakes maritime industry plays in regional economic development, international trade, and community prosperity. On April 17, the U.S. Trade Representative’s final determination exempts Great Lakes vessels from the US$1.5 million ... [+]

Americold Teams with DP World, CPKC in Canada

Americold Realty Trust, a provider of temperature-controlled logistics, real estate and value-added services, said May 29 it has begun work on its first import-export hub to be built in Port Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. The new cold storage facility, slated to open in 2026, will be the sixth operated by ... [+]

Atlas Air Sustainability Report Shows Progress

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings released its sixth Sustainability Report 2024 May 22, highlighting the initiatives and programs that are helping move the company forward on its green journey. The progress described in the report is aligned with four key pillars in Atlas’ sustainability strategy: ‘Preserve Our Planet,’ ‘Care for Our People,’ ... [+]

DP World to Invest $760 Million in Port of Caucedo

DP World said May 15 it will invest US$760 million to expand the Dominican Republic Port of Caucedo, which it said would create a manufacturing and logistics hub for the Americas DP World signed a memorandum of understanding, or MoU, with the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Industry, Commerce and MSMES. MICM ... [+]

US, China Agree to 90-day Pause on Tariffs

‘Liberation Day’ for many U.S. consumers and global traders came on May 14, not April 2, which was the day when President Donald Trump essentially set an embargo against Xi Jinping and China, and prohibitive tariffs against every country. And some penguins. Instead, On May 12, Trump issued a joint statement ... [+]

St. Bernard Opens Rehabilitated Chalmette Slip

The St. Bernard Port, Harbor and Terminal District, in partnership with Associated Terminals, on May 14 celebrated the completion of more than two decades of planning in the historic opening of the Chalmette Slip Rehabilitation Project. Originally constructed in 1907, the Chalmette Slip is fully operational for the first time in ... [+]

Port Freeport Unveils Cold Chain Facility

Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc., Freeport Warehouse LLC and Port Freeport unveiled the new Cross-Dock No. 1 facility, with 80,000 square feet of chilled cross-dock warehouse located near Port Freeport’s Velasco Container Terminal. Fresh Del Monte Produce, a leading vertically integrated producer, marketer and distributor of high-quality fresh and fresh-cut fruit ... [+]

Port of Long Beach Record Volumes Set to Plunge

The Port of Long Beach, after recording one of the strongest April’s on record – and its 11th consecutive month of cargo increases – is girding for a double-digit decline in shipments for May, due to the partially paused tariffs tit-for-tat. Dockworkers and terminal operators moved 867,493 twenty-foot equivalent units, or ... [+]

Long Beach Port Supports 2.7M US Jobs, Study

As one of the busiest U.S. seaports, the Port of Long Beach supports 2.7 million jobs across the nation, including more than 1.1 million in California, according to a port-commissioned study conducted by Boston-based EBP US found. In the five-county Southern California region, more than 691,000 jobs are connected to Port ... [+]

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