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 and vegetables began weekly calls at the Texas port in June 2024.
The facility is designed to streamline refrigerated cargo handling ...
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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 ...
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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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Danish shipping giant Maersk posted better-than-expected first quarter operating profit but warned that the ongoing tariff trade war between China and the U.S. could stunt global container volumes.
Maersk said first quarter earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA, of US$2.71 billion for the 2025 first quarter, 70 percent ...
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Chicago-based logistics solutions provider Loadsmart said Geoff Kelley has joined the company as COO and will oversee its brokerage, 4PL and managed transportation services.
Kelley was president of Nolan Transportation Group (NTG) and Transportation Insight (TI), where he helped lead the company through a period of aggressive growth and tech transformation ...
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April U.S. container imports increased 1.2 percent over March and 9.1 percent compared to the same month last year, surpassing 2.41 million TEUs for the second time in 2025, despite the current chaotic trade environment, according to Descartes Systems Group’s May Global Shipping Report.
Year-over-year, April volumes were 25.6 percent above ...
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BIMCO, the world’s largest shipping association, elected Fednav President and CEO Paul Pathy as the organization’s 47th president at its May 14 general meeting in Copenhagen.
Pathy, also the first BIMCO president from the Americas, succeeds Nikolaus H. Schües who is finishing his two-year term and will serve two more years ...
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Consumers face an overall average effective tariff rate of 27 percent, the highest since 1903 and, despite the 90-day pause, trade tariffs still feel like a constantly moving picture with a huge amount of uncertainty around what could happen next.
“There seems to be more common acknowledgement that nobody expects this ...
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Central Florida’s Port Canaveral said it is investing more than US$500 million in landside and waterside improvements as part of its comprehensive Port Canaveral Advantage plan to expand capacity and capabilities across all aspects of its business operations.
"Port Canaveral has been a driving force for the Central Florida economy for ...
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The 17th edition of the One World’s Market Sentiment Index, or MSI, for the multipurpose and breakbulk industry, shows further slippage in sentiment from 54.3 in the last edition to 53.3 in this edition but still above 50 which marks the point between generally positive and negative sentiment.
In recent weeks ...
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