Chicago, Aug. 14, 2025 — The factory floor is loud with the metallic clatter of conveyor belts, but upstairs in the control room, it’s the screens that demand attention. Three of them, lined up in a row. On the first, tariff rates flash in and out of red like warning...
Doha, Aug. 14, 2025 — The ramp lights cut hard lines through the darkness. Heat still lingers on the tarmac even at midnight. A freighter noses up to its bay, engines winding down with a deep, uneven growl. Forklifts are already moving before the stairs are in place. Pallets of seafood...
Washington, D.C., Aug. 14, 2025 — The corridors of the U.S. Department of Transportation are buzzing with a single message these days: they want your voice. The National Freight Strategic Plan — last updated in 2020 — is now being refreshed, and the federal officials behind it are calling on...
Dubai, Aug. 15, 2025 — Warm air even before sunrise. The ramp lights cut narrow cones across the tarmac. A freighter rolls to a standstill and the ground crew is already moving—hands up, palms flat, a small choreography under the engines’ fading whine. Reefer pallets first. You can smell the cold...
Istanbul, Aug. 14, 2025 — The Bosphorus was calm this morning, ferries sliding between continents, but in the glass towers of the city’s finance district, the talk was anything but quiet. Türkiye’s central bank confirmed a 27 % jump in foreign direct investment for the first half of the year...
Vadinar (India), Aug. 14, 2025 — At the refinery gate, the tide of tanker traffic has slowed to a trickle. Trucks wait longer. Inside, men lean on rails and watch monitors that show near-empty shelves. Since the European Union slapped sanctions on this facility in July, everything has changed. Early this...
Matamoros, Aug. 13, 2025 — On the edge of the Gulf of Mexico, the sound of cranes clanking against steel echoed over the docks as Puerto del Norte welcomed its first vessels. The new deep-water port, tucked just outside Matamoros and a short highway run from the U.S. border, is...
Klaipėda, Aug. 13, 2025 — The morning was damp, the kind that seeps into your sleeves. Down by the quay, the steady growl of truck engines carried through the fog. Each rig was loaded high with wheat, the canvas tarps pulled tight against the drizzle. From the bridge of a waiting...
Copenhagen, Aug. 13, 2025 — It wasn’t the kind of announcement many in the shipping sector were expecting. Maersk, usually careful with its forecasts, told investors this morning it now sees container volumes climbing between 2 and 4 percent in 2025. Only a few months ago, the upper end of...
Doha, Aug. 13, 2025 — The air on the ramp felt heavy enough to press against your skin. Somewhere in the glare, a wide-body freighter eased into position, its tires squealing faintly as it stopped. Forklifts darted in, engines whining, hauling stacks of seafood packed in melting ice, car parts...
