By Maria Kalamatas — August 22, 2025 BHUBANESWAR, India — August 22, 2025. On the eastern coast of India, cranes at Paradip Port have barely stopped moving this summer. Between April and July alone, the port handled more than 50 million tonnes of cargo — a record start to the fiscal...
WASHINGTON, August 21, 2025 — The Biden administration has laid down a long schedule for offshore oil and gas development. More than 30 lease sales are planned for the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Cook Inlet between now and 2040. The first auction is set for December this year. Officials said...
SEATTLE, August 21, 2025 — Ten years ago, Amazon launched a side project few outside the company noticed. Today it counts more than 8 million professional customers, from corner shops to some of the world’s largest corporations. The announcement came quietly, through a briefing with reporters. Managers pointed to growth in...
NEW YORK, August 20, 2025 — U.S. ports handled more cargo in July than at any other point this year. Nearly 3.01 million TEUs moved through the nation’s gateways, a 3.7 percent jump compared with last summer. The figures mark a 2025 peak — and a moment of relief for...
LONDON, August 20, 2025 — Ships are still sailing, containers are still moving, but the patterns are broken. New trade tariffs imposed this summer have forced freight companies to redraw their maps almost overnight. In the U.S., cargo that used to head straight to Los Angeles is now landing in Mexico...
DUBAI, August 20, 2025 — Cranes keep swinging, ships keep docking, and the numbers show it. DP World has posted a 20 percent surge in revenue for the first six months of 2025, taking the port operator’s income to more than $11.2 billion. Executives point to steady growth in container volumes,...
BONN, August 20, 2025 — When a typhoon ripped across the Philippines in 2005, the first planes to land were filled with aid. What most people didn’t see were the yellow-vested DHL volunteers clearing cargo bottlenecks at the airport, working shoulder to shoulder with the military to get supplies moving....
DUBAI, August 20, 2025 — The doors slid open this week on a 10,000-square-meter warehouse in Jebel Ali. Inside, robots hum along the aisles, and workers in red vests sort packages bound for Riyadh, Cairo, and beyond. This is JD.com’s latest play to grab a bigger share of the Middle...
Lagos, Aug. 15, 2025 — Light’s barely up, but the yard’s already alive. New trucks, paint still smelling fresh, sit in a neat line. Not diesel — compressed natural gas. Four thousand of them, ready to move. Engines murmur instead of growl. Drivers check mirrors, tap the glass over their fuel...
Odessa, Aug. 15, 2025 — Dawn barely touches the cranes when the crew starts moving. Deck plates are slick, ropes coiled in heaps near the rail. The ship’s name is half-hidden under salt spray, but the hold is full — wheat bound for Egypt. A deal signed last week opened this...
