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Logistics impacts from flooding in Houston and other parts of southeast Texas continue to spread as shippers and transportation providers cope with a regional interruption in port, truck, rail, and air freight shipment.   Port Houston said its terminals, which shut at mid-day last Friday in advance of Hurricane Harvey, will...

Trucking fleets, railroads and shipping lines are rerouting cargo and setting up alternate supply lines as Tropical Storm Harvey promises to disrupt freight traffic across southeast Texas for days. Seaports in Houston and Corpus Christi have been closed to most ships since before Harvey made landfall Friday, and rising waters...

The penalty for leaving containers in yards past free time at Bangladesh’s Chittagong Port has been doubled to US$12 per TEU per day and $24 per FEU, in a bid to ease congestion. Previously, the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) allowed importers to store containers free of charge for four days...

Workers at one of Indonesia’s busiest ports ended their strike on Monday, sooner than planned, out of consideration for “national interests”, the chairman of the labour union said. More than 600 workers at PT Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT) had been on strike since Thursday to demand bonus payments, disrupting...

Trucker frustration is building after hundreds of drivers waited in line — some for six hours or more — at APM Terminals at the Port of New York and New Jersey, as the facility still recovering from a cyber attack on its parent company, Maersk Group, got hit with higher than usual...

Pilots in Brazil’s leading port of Santos reduced the official maximum draft from 13.2 meters (43.3 feet) to 12.3 meters, causing draft restrictions that have led to hundreds of containers being rolled. The average losses per container ship are $1.6 million based on an average freight rate of $2,300 per...

Inland barges are facing longer delays loading and unloading at Rotterdam and Antwerp with no sign of an early easing of congestion at Europe’s largest container ports. Barges are having to wait up to 96 hours to process their cargoes at Antwerp owing to the large number of ships calling at...

The strike by Spanish stevedores is coming to an end, as stevedores reach individual agreements with terminal operators frustrated by the inability of the owners’ association, Anesco, to negotiate a country-wide agreement. Anesco’s final proposal was rejected on June 21, leaving trade unions to insist on strikes continuing only in...

Shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, which handles one out of seven containers shipped globally, said a cyberattack had caused outages at its computer systems across the world on Tuesday. The attack came as computer servers across Europe and in India were hit by a major ransomware attack. “We can confirm that...

A cyber attack wreaked havoc around the globe on Wednesday, crippling thousands of computers, disrupting operations at ports from Mumbai to Los Angeles and halting production at a chocolate factory in Australia. The virus is believed to have first taken hold on Tuesday in Ukraine where it silently infected computers...