Mohammad Shakibi-Nasab, the director-general of the Ports and Maritime Department of Bushehr province, said that five million tons of commodities were loaded and unloaded in Bushehr port during the ...

Take a look around you. Perhaps you’re snacking on a banana, sipping some coffee, or sitting in front of your computer and taking a break from work to read this article. Most likely, those goods—as ...

This story appears in the April 15 print edition of Transport Topics. Federal officials are cracking down on moving companies that try to evade regulations for household-goods movers, saying companies ...

The government has stepped in to resolve the container shortage situation to ensure adequate availability for exporters, with the Shipping Ministry and some other line ministries, like the Railways, ...

Transporting perishable goods like fresh produce, dairy, seafood, pharmaceuticals, or even flowers comes with unique challenges. Without proper temperature control, these sensitive items risk losing ...

Bill Tigner, president of U.S. Shredder & Castings Group, based in Trussville, Ala., says if a yard is loading containers with equipment that produces less than desired tonnage or takes more than 30 ...

Global container shipping rates have surged to records on a spike in restocking demand in the United States and Europe, container scarcity at export hubs, and changes in freight flows because of the ...

BOSTON - Ninety percent of traded goods are shipped by sea and 10% contain what is called dangerous goods, according to the World Shipping Council. Dangerous goods or hazmat cargo can be anything from ...

Advanced Steel Recovery, a Fontana, Calif.-based scrap recycling company, has been looking at ways to increase the amount of ferrous scrap exported via containers. Nathan Frankel, president of ASR, ...