It has rarely been more expensive to move sugar, coffee and copper around the world by sea. Ocean freight rates began to soar last summer, and haven’t let up. That is partly because consumers, unable ...

Disruption to supply chains triggered by the impacts of Covid-19 has ignited a worldwide shipping crisis, with prices of shipments skyrocketing due to a shortage of containers. Often headlined as the ...

The boom in container shipping is firing up demand for some of the world’s smallest commodity-hauling vessels. With rates to hire 20-foot steel boxes soaring this year, charterers are looking to the ...

LITTLETON, Colorado, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The continuing disruption of shipping traffic transiting the Red Sea area looks set to boost vessel emissions as ships that are being rerouted away from the ...