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For more than five months, foreign-flag vessels have been permitted to carry cargo between U.S. ports under an emergency waiver of the Jones Act intended to address an immediate adverse effect on military operations.
The cargoes actually moved under that authority, however, have ranged well beyond obvious military requirements, raising questions over how broadly the national-defense standard has been applied and whether qualified U.S. vessels could have performed some of the ...
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UPS is reorganizing its operating structure around a more globally integrated logistics network as the company shifts its attention from domestic network restructuring toward international, healthcare and supply chain growth.
The changes, effective Sept. 1, follow UPS's completion in June of its Amazon volume reduction and ...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation and Port of Corpus Christi have signed an agreement to explore small modular reactor technology for maritime applications, making Corpus Christi the second major U.S. port to join the Maritime Administration's developing nuclear maritime initiative.
Under a memorandum of cooperation signed ...
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Descartes Systems Group has acquired freight brokerage technology provider Tai Software for about US$100 million, expanding its transportation management capabilities and adding shipment and carrier execution data to its Global Logistics Network.
California-based Tai provides an AI-enabled transportation management system for freight brokers covering truckload, less-than-truckload, ...
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AAL Shipping has completed a 12,000-freight-ton shipment of heavy power generation equipment from Asia to Houston for a major U.S. natural gas power development.
The project cargo movement comprised 195 individual units transported aboard the 31,000-deadweight-ton AAL Kobe, one of AAL Shipping's A-Class multipurpose heavy-lift vessels.
The ...
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Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. (âKâ Line) has signed agreements with Nihon Shipyard Co. Ltd. for construction of three very large crude carriers designed for Middle East-Asia crude trades.
The 311,000-deadweight-ton vessels will be built to Malaccamax dimensions, allowing them to efficiently transit the Strait of Malacca ...
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The Trump administration has extended its Jones Act waiver for another 90 days, continuing to allow foreign-flag vessels to move certain cargoes between U.S. ports as the government seeks to ease energy supply pressures stemming from disruptions in the Middle East.
The latest extension took effect ...
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Worsening container port congestion is exposing a fundamental disagreement over what is causing it: too little investment in terminal capacity, or an industrywide drive for higher asset utilization that has left the supply chain with too little room for disruption.
A.P. Moller-Maersk CEO Vincent Clerc recently ...
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Chiquita Fresh North America and TA Dedicated are marking 20 years of a transportation relationship supporting the movement of bananas from U.S. ports into the grocery distribution network.
The partnership represents the inland portion of a highly specialized cold chain in which maintaining temperature, transit times ...
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Tanker demand is weakening as disruptions to oil exports from the Persian Gulf, Red Sea and Russia reduce seaborne cargo volumes, according to BIMCO's August Tanker Shipping Market Overview and Outlook.
BIMCO forecasts crude tanker demand will fall 10.5 percent to 12.5 percent in 2026 if ...
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