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Russian, Ukrainian Grain Shipments Plunge 49%

Russian and Ukrainian grain shipments plunged a combined 49 percent year-over-year between January and August 2025, according to a report from BIMCO, the Danish shipping association. Both countries had a smaller export surplus following weaker grain harvests in the second half of 2024. “Overall, the combined production from both countries was 10 percent below pre-war levels,” said Filipe Gouveia, shipping analysis manager at BIMCO. Russian and Ukrainian grain harvests in 2024 fell ... [+]

DHL Halts Handling Postal Goods to US Customers

Deutsche Post and DHL Parcel Germany are no longer accepting and transporting parcels and postal items containing goods from business customers destined for the U.S., due to a Trump executive order suspending duty-free de minimis shipments. With the executive order "Suspending Duty-Free De Minimis Treatment for ... [+]

AAL Super B-Class ‘Antwerp’ Delivers in Dover

The AAL Antwerp has marked both its own and the wider AAL Shipping Super B-Class fleet’s maiden call in Dover with the successful delivery of a 330-tonne transformer and associated project cargo units. The components are to be used in the ongoing redevelopment of the Sellindge ... [+]

Port Milwaukee Named Great Lakes ‘Pacesetter’

U.S. Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. (GLS), an operating administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation, has awarded Port Milwaukee the Robert J. Lewis Pacesetter Award for the 16th time. The award recognizes ports in the Great Lakes and along the St. Lawrence Seaway ... [+]

Long Beach Commission Elects Colonna President

Long Beach Harbor Commission Vice President Frank Colonna was elected president of the five-person board that oversees the Port of Long Beach. The board also selected Steven Neal as vice president and Sharon L. Weissman as secretary. Commissioners on every July select a president and two ... [+]

Container Rates Decline Continues, Drewry

Drewry's World Container Index, or WCI, decreased 4 percent to US$2,250 per 40-foot container the week of Aug. 31. It was the 10th consecutive weekly decline and continued to stabilize after a volatile period. The unpredictability began, Drewry said, after U.S. tariffs were announced in April, ... [+]

Thyssenkrupp Halts Green Hydrogen Projects

Thyssenkrupp Nucera said its U.S. projects unit is abandoning those projected seen as no longer feasible due to tax and spending changes initiated by U.S. President Donald Trump. Global demand for green hydrogen had stalled amid concern among clean-tech players over what Trump's policies would ... [+]

Blue Water Switches Port Operations Fuel to HVO

Blue Water, in its efforts to reduce the company's CO2 emissions, has introduced HVO, or hydrotreated vegetable oil diesel, as fuel for port activities in Esbjerg, Aarus and Lindø, Denmark. The shipping line said its switch to HVO diesel will reduce emissions by up to 90 ... [+]

Louisiana Ports to Collaborate on Strategy

The five deepwater Louisiana ports of Lower Mississippi River, or LMR, have entered into an agreement to develop a collaborative marketing strategy. The Port of Greater Baton Rouge, Port of South Louisiana, Port of New Orleans, St. Bernard Port, Harbor and Terminal District, and Louisiana Gateway ... [+]

Hapag-Lloyd Sees 1H Growth in Volatile Market

At its midway point in is financial year, shipping line Hapag-Lloyd saw significantly increased transport in a volatile shipping market characterized by chaotic implementation of tariffs. Germany-based Hapag-Lloyd concluded its first half with group EBITDA of US$1.9 billion, up 11.3 percent from the first half of ... [+]

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