Container shipping, the linchpin of global trade, has been thrown into turmoil once again as President Donald Trump’s trade war continues to escalate. Recent weeks have seen a dizzying array of tariff ...

Empty container repositioning (ECR) is a critical aspect of modern supply chain management, addressing the challenge presented by trade imbalances and the resultant misallocation of container ...

Since late last year BNSF Railway and Union Pacific have been busy handling a surge of containers from West Coast ports as U.S. companies pulled forward their imports in order to beat potential ...

The shipping industry has witnessed tremendous growth in the international, global carriage of goods by container vessels. Container ships have been ever increasing in size, and capacity. There are ...

[This article was first published in Army Sustainment Professional Bulletin, which was then called Army Logistician, volume 2, number 2 (March–April 1970), pages 16–22.] A SUBSTANTIAL NUMBER of big, ...

Fewer containers and ships are leaving China for the U.S., though shipments from Vietnam have picked up some slack. The normally bustling Port of Los Angeles is beginning to receive fewer and less ...

More than 60 containers toppled off a cargo ship Tuesday morning in the Port of Long Beach, tumbling overboard and floating in the water.The shipping containers fell off a vessel named the Mississippi ...