Asian spot liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices continued its downtrend this week on healthy inventories but are expected to rise in the short term, as buyers will need to boost stock ahead of cold winter months and as Europe faces higher price risk....

The cost of sea freight is plummeting as countries raise interest rates amid fears of a global recession, but it may not necessarily result in cheaper imports for Australian consumers, stakeholders say....

Rates for shipping containers from east Asia and China to the US continued to fall this week and are nearing the levels seen at the start of the pandemic, pushed lower by falling demand, China’s ongoing zero-COVID policies and Chinese factory closures for the Golden Week holiday....

The Port of New York and New Jersey is moving ahead with new shipping container requirements for ocean carriers and fees for violations. The container late fee, which was originally to be implemented on Sept. 1, was delayed to allow for talks with ocean carriers about their concerns....

Container spot rates from China to Europe and the US tanked again this week, leading to heavy discounting by carriers and prompting some to offer significant mid-term reductions to contract rates....

The currently out-of-action Nord Stream pipeline system was damaged, with Germany saying it suspected it was an act of sabotage. It came as Russia also threatened to cut off gas to Europe via a major link through Ukraine, which would be a sharp escalation in the conflict between Moscow and the West....

The cost of shipping goods from China has slumped to the lowest level in more than two years as the world economy stumbles, dimming prospects for container carriers that turned in record profits during the pandemic....

China remained the world’s leading shipbuilder in the first eight months of the year, industrial data showed....

Around 82 ships with 418 seafarers remain stuck around Ukrainian ports despite the opening of a U.N.-backed sea corridor to ship grains with efforts to get the mariners sailing still stuck, shipping industry officials said on Thursday....

Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - The cement production industry expects to promote domestic consumption because it is finding difficult to boost exports....