The price of shipping containerized cargo across international borders has been trending upward — sometimes in dramatic fashion — for several years now.

The Port of Baltimore channel has fully reopened to all vessel traffic as of June 10, 2024, following 11 weeks of painstaking progress clearing debris from the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

On June 11, 2024, the Canadian government and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), the union representing over 9,000 Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) workers, reached a tentative collective..

The transportation industry is brimming with jargon; terminology, acronyms and abbreviations that are unique to the business of freight movement. To the uninitiated, the sheer amount of things to learn and..

Shipping freight by air for the first time — or even the 101st time! —  can feel overwhelming, especially for shippers unfamiliar with the many unique terms and processes involved.

On March 26, 2024, the 984-foot cargo ship M/V Dali hit a pillar of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing its total collapse into the Patapsco River. 

The deeper you look into the transportation world, the more complexity you’ll find. While no aspect of your job is easy, per se, overseeing your business’ transportation supply chain can be overwhelming. 

Shipping goods across the country, and especially from overseas, is rarely as simple as loading the material once at the origin point and then unloading it at the final destination. 

In its 2022 Review of Maritime Transport, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) states that marine vessels carried more than 80 percent of global trade cargo volumes in 2022. This..