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We have entered 2019 with some good economic indicators: jobs, wages, gross domestic product and retail sales all saw strong growth during 2

Trying to forecast in an environment that resembles a yo-yo in terms of economic data and policy is becoming an extreme challenge. What...

It seems that traditional economic fundamentals do not have the same impact on trade that they used to have. We are now in a politically...

There are some potential lessons to be learned for container trades from the new US Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA.) This is the...

The reality of the Trump administration’s concerted attack on trade and its linkage of trade to the U.S. deficit is finally beginning to...

The container shipping industry lives somewhere in the tri-state area of Chaos, Flux, and Transition. While everyone would rather live...

What a change eight months can make. At the beginning of the year, carriers and big consulting houses projected a bumper year all round...

The back-and-forth incremental increases in US import tariffs and retaliations against US exports continued through July and into August....

The risk of new US trade policy having rapid impacts on US container trade volumes this year seems to have dissipated some in April. The...

There is nothing good about a trade war. It is a vicious circle of retaliation where there are no winners, only losers. President Trump...