Ocean Transportation

U.S. Shale Has a Panama Canal Problem That Has No Easy Fix

December 12, 2017

It seemed at the time like a somewhat random, and amazingly fortuitous, coincidence.

Maersk Lets Customers Track Containers With IoT

December 8, 2017

Maersk Line, the world’s largest container shipping company, is working to reshape supply chains through the internet of things.

Disappearances Are Rising in the Pacific

December 6, 2017

Maritime Executive

The U.K.-based charity Human Rights at Sea has published its latest investigative report into the increasing number of deaths and disappearances of crew and fisheries observers in the Pacific Ocean.

Bellona: Electric Revolution Must Start on Land

December 4, 2017

Maritime Executive

At the COP23 climate conference in Bonn last month, Oslo-based environmental NGO Bellona held a forum on electrification of shipping. While most discussions at the summit centered on zero-emissions land transportation, Bellona held a discussion on what it would take to bring the shoreside electric revolution to the seas.

Autonomous Shipping Raises Legal Concerns

November 28, 2017

Maritime Executive

While the U.K. Shipping Register has included its first autonomous vessel, there are several gaps that need to be addressed before such technology becomes widespread and moves into the international domain.

Why Builders of Big L.A. Projects Are Making Concrete With Gravel and Sand Shipped From Canada

November 21, 2017

Los Angeles Times

The 519 miles of L.A.'s freeway system. Dodger Stadium. City Hall. All built with concrete filled with rock and sand washed down from Southern California's iconic mountain ranges.

Piracy Increases in Straits of Malacca and Singapore

November 16, 2017

Maritime Executive

The number of piracy incidents against ships in Asia last month increased compared to the same period in 2016.

Tech Is Becoming Critical As U.S. Sharpens Focus on Sanctions Violations

November 14, 2017

Maritime Executive

In the past year, political shakeups around the world have added new layers of complexity to the already complex ocean supply chain. Within this, trade sanctions in particular have evolved dramatically in the last few months, and are putting greater pressure on companies to remain compliant.

China Grows Belt and Road Business

November 10, 2017

Maritime Executive

Trade between China and countries along the Belt and Road reached a value of $786bn in the first three quarters of this year, up 15 percent on the same period last year.

Ship Glut Clouds Long-Awaited Recovery

November 9, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

Container shipping is emerging from a painful six-year slump, but a glut of tonnage that will hit the water over the next two years threatens to derail the nascent recovery.

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