George Lauriat

If the proposal is enacted as currently presented the result could eviscerate the U.S. state port system, and it is unclear that the proposal will have a material impact on blue-water commercial shipbuilding.

For New England’s importers and exporters, the Port of Boston is an integral part of their supply chain strategy.

In 2024 the Port of Baltimore overcame a great deal to post the second-best year on record.

Will the world’s top 100 container ports continue to grow in 2025? The outlook is foggy.

The Trump administration’s on-again off-again tariffs to the world policy has introduced an unprecedented level of uncertainty — for what was looking like a strong period for trade — to the logistics industry and in turn the logistics real estate market in 2025.

Back on June 25th the AJOT published a two-part story outlining the potential impacts of the Trump Administration’s tariffs and the United States Trade Representative (USTR) 301 “fee” proposals on auto imports and the Ro/Ro (Roll-on/Roll-off) transportation of vehicles.

Discussions on the value to America of the Act are often polarizing. And the views on the Jones Act’s importance to the US economy are frequently at odds.

Containership ownership is top heavy. The top ten container ship operators manage over 84% of the TEU (twenty-foot equivalent) capacity and operate 54.5% of the ships of the containership fleet (using numbers extrapolated from Alphaliner’s Top 100 list).

The Panama Canal’s terminal management is a tangled web of geo-political influence and economic necessities. Can it be untangled? Or is the future to be entwined by influences that lie thousands of miles away?

Global container ports post strong 2025 TEU growth, but Middle East conflicts and shifting trade routes raise concerns for 2026.