Paul Berger

Unionized dockworkers and employers at a swath of U.S. ports set their first bargaining since a recent strike for after an election that could scramble the dynamics in negotiations.

The world’s largest freight forwarder expects lower than usual freight volumes to end the year after retailers and manufacturers pulled in holiday goods early because of global shipping disruptions.

Lower interest rates are also helping spur logistics companies to sell themselves or look for acquisitions.

Striking dockworkers are back to work—but disagreement over automation​ stands in the way of lasting peace.

Companies sweeten contract offer to a 62% wage increase to reopen ports from Maine to Texas

Retailers say they can weather a short shutdown but prices are likely to rise and shortages might grow in a prolonged walkout.

The International Longshoremen’s Association, which represents 45,000 dockworkers from Maine to Texas, is pushing for a 77% pay increase.

Shipping employers are appealing to federal regulators ahead of threatened dockworker strike next week at gateways from Maine to Texas.

Port terminal operator DP World is talking to Mexico’s government about allowing it to start operations in the country, which would enable the Dubai-based business to handle cargo heading into the U.S. from the south.

A bankruptcy court judge said the failed trucker is still on the hook after it withdrew from pension contributions in its shutdown.

DSV won a monthslong sales process that saw sovereign-wealth funds, private-equity firms and shipping giant Maersk all weighing bids.

Dockworkers from Maine to Texas are finalizing strike plans with less than a month remaining on their labor contract and no negotiations scheduled with port employers, raising the prospects of an Oct. 1 walkout that would hit the U.S. economy in the weeks before the presidential election. 

Officials at the dockworkers’ union will meet next week to discuss walkout plans at ports from Maine to Texas if demands for a 77% wage increase aren’t met.

U.S. companies are pulling away from China as Democrats and Republicans increasingly impose duties on Beijing.

Collapsed trucker Yellow is facing perhaps its last major reckoning with its long list of creditors, and hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake.

Container-handling companies say an unreliable power supply is hindering a bid to phase out diesel-powered machinery by 2030.

America’s largest freight broker is selling its European surface transportation business to German freight forwarder Sennder Technologies.

The strategy comes as freight rates are rising and new tariffs are set to hit some goods from China.

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