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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 ... [+]

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 ... [+]

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 ... [+]

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, ... [+]

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 ... [+]

Tariff Tensions Temper Maersk’s ’25 Forecast

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 ... [+]

Loadsmart Hires Kelley COO to Oversee Brokerage

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 ... [+]

US Imports Grow Despite Trade Flux, Descartes

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 ... [+]

Tackling Tariffs and Trade Shifts, Xeneta

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 ... [+]

Market Sentiment Index Reflects Uncertainty

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 ... [+]

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