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Nearly double-digit growth at Shanghai combined with weather issues to generate congestion in April. Container throughput at the main ports in China’s Yangtze River Delta rose by 9 percent year over year in April, fueling congestion and delays at Shanghai’s Yangshan deep-sea port. New figures from the Shanghai Shipping Exchange...

Customs authorities on either side of the border plan to restore operations to the largest US-Mexico truck crossing this coming Monday, after severe weather damaged the World Trade International Bridge last Sunday. Shippers moving cargo between the United States and Mexico over the bridge have faced detours and delays since...

Dockworkers in Spain were expected to begin eight days of intermittent strikes today but have agreed to just three days after a deal was struck to protect jobs. Unions have been incensed by the government’s decision to push through labor reforms that target port workers. The changes, mandated by the...

A 10-day strike by transporters in Karachi to protest against heavy vehicles being barred from moving inside the city during the daytime has ended. The port has been clogged with containers that could take a week or more to clear.

As a drawn-out labor conflict at the Nordic region’s largest port escalates, some of Sweden’s largest exporters are warning they may be forced to find alternative harbours abroad to safeguard shipments. Container capacity at A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S’ APM Terminals facility in Gothenburg has in the past six months dropped to...

The Sindifisco, the trade union for the audit inspectors at the Receita Federal (Federal Revenue, or customs department) has decided to continue with a weeklong strike at all major Brazilian ports, starting Monday. The national branch of Sindifisco’s decision to vote Friday night to continue with a plan to strike...

Spanish trade unions called eight days of strikes for late May in protest of the government’s proposed stevedore labour reforms, while sources in Spain claim worker productivity has already intentionally decreased. Unions proclaimed that they would hold strikes from May 24 until June 9, during odd hours on each Monday,...

In a sharp reversal for US offshore service companies, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) withdrew its proposed changes to Jones Act rules that could have shut the door to foreign-flag operators in the Gulf of Mexico. CBP has decided to withdraw a proposal that would have reinterpreted 30 years...

The Karachi Port’s terminals are teeming with containers as a goods transporters’ strike has led to non-availability of heavy vehicles to move imports and exports. The port is almost at its full capacity, with import shipments obstructing the movement of export containers. Outbound ships are thus leaving without export loads....

President Donald Trump won’t immediately terminate U.S. participation in the North American Free Trade Agreement, the White House said, after he spoke with the leaders of Mexico and Canada about ways to renegotiate the accord. “Both conversations were pleasant and productive. President Trump agreed not to terminate Nafta at this...