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U.S. dry bulk shipments to China more than doubled during the first nine months of 2026 as grain volumes recovered from last year's trade-related decline, according to BIMCO.
Shipments increased 104 percent year over year during the first three quarters, led by a 176 percent increase in grain cargoes, BIMCO Shipping Analysis Manager Filipe Gouveia said. U.S. coal shipments to China increased 44 percent and petcoke volumes rose 33 percent.
The rebound ...
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Undeclared dangerous goods accounted for 81 percent of dangerous-goods incidents reported to the International Air Transport Association during the first half of 2025, as growing e-commerce volumes and widespread use of lithium batteries create new risks for air cargo supply chains.
IATA recorded 3,465 dangerous-goods incidents ...
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Ocean freight procurement teams are rethinking the annual tender as volatile rates, unpredictable surcharges and inconsistent carrier performance make it increasingly difficult to build a freight budget that can survive an entire year.
That was a common theme from recent Xeneta shipper roundtables in Atlanta, Houston ...
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A global retreat from duty-free treatment of low-value e-commerce shipments is pushing billions of parcels toward more conventional customs processes, increasing data, duty collection and compliance requirements for sellers, marketplaces and logistics providers.
The latest pressure point is the U.K., where the government plans to eliminate ...
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Container shipping is heading toward renewed supply pressure in 2027 as accelerating vessel deliveries outpace demand growth, with a return to normal Suez Canal routings potentially adding substantially more effective capacity, according to BIMCO.
The container ship order book has climbed above 14 million TEU, equal ...
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Artificial intelligence is beginning to move beyond analyzing logistics operations toward systems capable of independently planning and acting across supply chains, according to DHL's latest assessment of technologies expected to reshape the industry.
The DHL Logistics Trend Radar 8.0 identifies Agentic AI as one of the ...
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FBJNA – How It Works, with Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg Trade Report – With U.S. tariffs increasing the cost and complexity of importing goods, companies are taking another look at a longstanding customs tool that can defer, reduce or, in some cases, eliminate duties: the ...
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Panama Canal bulker transits have fallen 22 percent year over year since the beginning of July as lower water levels and increased competition for transit slots push more dry bulk vessels toward longer alternative routes, according to BIMCO.
Tankers have added to competition for canal capacity ...
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The regulatory battle over the proposed Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger is beginning to move beyond broad arguments over consolidation as railroads, shippers and other parties outline specific competitive concerns and potential remedies they may ask the Surface Transportation Board to impose.
One of the most significant ...
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DHL Global Forwarding has launched an artificial intelligence-based tool that allows shippers to use natural-language queries to analyze customs declarations, tariff exposure, duty spending and clearance performance across global operations.
TradeNavigator operates within DHL's TradeConnect platform, which integrates local customs declaration data from more than 75 ...
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