North America

Shifting Tides: Container Volume Trends in Major Trade Hubs

The global shipping landscape has undergone significant transformations from 2019 to 2023, shaped by various economic forces and unprecedented challenges. This period, marked by the disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic, has tested the resilience of major trade regions, each responding differently to the shifting tides of global commerce.

North America, East Asia, and the Middle East are pivotal players in the container shipping sector, reflecting not only their economic dynamics but also the...

https://container-news.com/shifting-tides-container-volume-trends-in-major-trade-hubs/

Overcapacity remains key challenge, Trimble-Transporeon report finds

Trimble’s (NYSE: TRMB) newly released Transporeon report identifies overcapacity and nearshoring as two of several key factors impacting the future of the truckload transportation sector in North America.

The report analyzes market trends and data based on survey responses from Indago supply chain research community members as well as the Transporeon shipper and carrier community, according to an emailed news release Wednesday from Trimble.

Westminster, Colorado-based TMS provider Trimble acquired...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/overcapacity-remains-key-challenge-trimble-transporeon-report-finds

OPINION | How to equip the US Coast Guard against China’s grey-zone operations

The US Coast Guard Legend-class cutter USCGC Munro conducts joint training with the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force replenishment ship JS Omi in the East China Sea, August 26, 2021.

America’s allies in the Indo-Pacific are getting pretty familiar with China’s grey-zone maritime behaviour, but the United States itself is ill-prepared for dealing with it. Yet it should be prepared, experts warned a US House of Representatives committee in a hearing this month. The US must not...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/security/non-naval-security/coast-guard/opinion-how-to-equip-the-us-coast-guard-against-chinas-grey-zone-operations/

Keel laid for US Navy’s sixth John Lewis-class fleet oiler

Rendering of a John Lewis-class fleet replenishment oiler

General Dynamics NASSCO laid the keel of a future US Navy John Lewis-class fleet replenishment oiler (T-AO) in a ceremony on Friday, June 21. The sixth ship in the John Lewis-class will be named USNS Sojourner Truth in honour of an African-American former slave and human rights activist. Like its...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/security/naval/naval-auxiliary-support/keel-laid-for-us-navys-sixth-john-lewis-class-fleet-oiler/

Passenger Vessel News Roundup | June 26 – US cruise ship orders and construction plus a new tour catamaran for Australia

A luxury cruise ship slated for a Swiss operator completes is final series of sea trials while construction continues on the fifth ship in a series ordered by a US cruise company. Orders have meanwhile been placed for sea-going and river cruise ships and a catamaran that will sail on excursions in...

https://www.bairdmaritime.com/passenger/maritime-tourism/passenger-vessel-news-roundup-june-26-us-cruise-ship-orders-and-construction-plus-a-new-tour-catamaran-for-australia/

Offshore Vessel News Roundup | June 26 – Crewboat deliveries and orders, new FLNG for Indonesian waters and more

A new crewboat has been delivered to a US operator while a Dutch firm places a rebuilt anchor handler in service. A UK builder launches a catamaran crewboat ordered by a repeat customer. Orders include those for six crewboats, a daughtercraft, and a floating gas processing unit. Workboat enters service with Netherlands’ Emar Offshore Services […]

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Construction and operations plan for wind project offshore New England secures US federal government approval

Offshore wind turbines at an undisclosed location

The US federal government, through the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), has approved Sunrise Wind’s plan for construction and operations. This is the project’s final approval from BOEM, following the Department of the Interior’s March 2024 Record of Decision on the project. The Sunrise Wind project will be located south of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, […]

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