Marine Freight

Container ship operators and big importers like IKEA and Walmart Inc. will soon negotiate freight rates that could affect the prices consumers pay for everything from jeans to cars.Yearlong freight contracts,…

Mark Boone grudgingly accepted that the cost of shipping a container of wax melters from Pakistan to Charleston, S.C., doubled in the past year to more than $17,000.But the shipping line’s extra $6,820 fee in…

The Covid-19 Omicron variant is hampering efforts to clear a backlog of about 100 container ships at the nation’s busiest port complex as infections rise among Southern California dockworkers. About 800…

A.P. Moller-Maersk AMKBY 0.26% A/S said Wednesday it has agreed to buy LF Logistics for around $3.6 billion including lease liabilities, a move that would give the…

The backup of container ships waiting to enter the nation’s busiest port complex isn’t letting up. But it has moved farther from shore.Only about 30 vessels sat within sight of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach this week, waiting for…

The Biden administration pressed ports in Southern California to open 24 hours a day to help ease supply-chain bottlenecks. The move has barely made a ripple.One terminal at the Port of Long Beach flung open its gates around the clock for…

Cruise operators, whose U.S. operations have been suspended for more than a year amid the Covid-19 pandemic, are betting on technology to help keep passengers safe when they finally start leaving U.S. ports this summer.…