Port Congestion Beat Its 2022 Record. The Share of the Fleet Stuck in Queues Is Smaller.
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A record 4.31 million TEU of ship capacity is waiting to berth, beating the 2022 peak. But it is 12.6% of the fleet against 15.7% then — and that gap is the whole story for anyone buying freight this quarter.
The Navy Is Sidelining 17 Ships to Free Up Crews. It Just Ordered Ten More.
Military Sealift Command has sidelined more than a dozen support ships because it cannot crew them, and is simultaneously soliciting ten commercial tankers. The binding constraint on American naval logistics is mariners, not hulls — and hulls are the…
Canada’s New $750M Export Terminal Fixes a Real Problem. Replacing US Trade Isn’t It.
CANXPORT opened at Prince Rupert on August 27 — 400,000 containers a year of Canadian export capacity. Los Angeles and Long Beach moved 20.1 million in 2025. The terminal solves an empty-container problem, which is a smaller and more interesting story.