Mexikanische Transportunternehmen haben am Montag einen unbefristeten landesweiten Streik begonnen, um gegen die Unsicherheit auf Autobahnen, Ladungsdiebstahl, Erpressung und steigende Betriebskosten zu protestieren. Demonstrationen sind in wichtigen Logistikzentren entlang der Grenze zwischen den USA und Mexiko geplant. Der von der National Chamber of Freight Transportation (CANACAR) und anderen Transportverbänden organisierte Streik ruft zu Protesten in ganz Mexiko auf, darunter in Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, Monterrey, Tijuana und Mexiko-Stadt. Die Proteste könnten den Güterverkehr durch einige
Chattanooga – Es ist noch nicht lange her – weniger als einen Monat –, dass Jesse Elison auf einer Branchenveranstaltung das Problem des angeschlagenen neuen Motus-Registrierungssystems ansprach. Der stellvertretende Administrator der Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) sprach am Montag auf dem Broker Compliance Symposium von FreightWaves, einer von zwei eintägigen Sitzungen, die als Auftakt zum größeren, am Dienstag beginnenden Future of Freight Festival hier dienen. Die wichtigste Nachricht seiner Präsentation war eigentlich keine: nachdem er Anfang Oktober bei der National M
Seit Jahren sucht der Westen nach einem technologischen Ausweg aus der Abhängigkeit von Seltenen Erden. Ingenieure haben neue Motorkonzepte, alternative Magnetchemien und Materialien entwickelt, die den Bedarf an einigen kritischen Mineralien reduzieren oder sogar eliminieren. Jedes Mal, wenn China die Exportkontrollen verschärft, erhalten diese Bemühungen einen neuen Schub an Aufmerksamkeit. Sie sind es wert, verfolgt zu werden. Aber sie beantworten nicht die Frage, die Hersteller heute lösen müssen. Produktionskapazität ist zum knappsten Gut geworden. Diese Erkenntnis treibt eines der ambiti
Die Rohölpreise waren auf dem besten Weg, einen deutlichen wöchentlichen Anstieg zu verzeichnen, wobei Brent-Rohöl auf Kurs für Gewinne von etwa 6 USD pro Barrel lag und WTI einen deutlich moderateren Anstieg von etwa 99 USD pro Barrel am Montag auf über 100 USD heute verzeichnete. Zum Zeitpunkt der Erstellung dieses Artikels wurde Brent-Rohöl bei 114,00 USD pro Barrel gehandelt, und West Texas Intermediate wurde für 100,40 USD pro Barrel gehandelt, da die Feindseligkeiten im Nahen Osten für Öl-Händler weiterhin Schlagzeilen machen. Der Fokus scheint jedoch auf den Houthi-Angriffen auf die sau
Die Trump-Regierung hat am Freitag ihre „America First Seafood Strategy“ vorgestellt. Der Plan sieht vor, die kommerzielle US-Fischereiindustrie durch regulatorische Reformen sowie Investitionen in Fischereifahrzeuge und Hafeninfrastruktur zu stärken.
Nach Monaten erhöhter Energiepreise muss Europa damit rechnen, dass die Kraftstoffkosten im weiteren Verlauf der Wintermonate bei steigender Nachfrage weiter zunehmen werden. Anhaltende Einschränkungen im Energiehandel und Bedrohungen der Energieinfrastruktur im Nahen Osten dürften das globale Energieangebot begrenzen und die Preise weiter in die Höhe treiben, was die Verbraucher hart treffen wird, sofern Regierungen nicht eingreifen. Es wird angenommen, dass die Europäische Union (EU) in diesem Jahr bereits zusätzlich 100 Milliarden Euro für Öl und Gas gezahlt hat, was die EU-Minister dazu ve
The artificial intelligence boom is placing a dangerous strain on the world’s water and energy resources. As hyperscalers build up resource-hungry data centers at a breakneck pace, demand projections for these finite resources are skyrocketing faster than policymakers can keep pace. But a new study from researchers at the University of Texas at Austin suggests that there may be a way to sustainably source water for data centers by using wastewater from the oil and gas industry. The water and energy use of AI data centers is enormous…
Trotz des Iran-Krieges und der Hormus-Krise wird die kostengünstige Chemieproduktion im Nahen Osten ihren langfristigen Vorteil gegenüber anderen Regionen voraussichtlich beibehalten. Kurzfristige Verschiebungen bei der Beschaffung von Polymeren finden aufgrund der aktuellen Engpässe in der Industriebasis des Persischen Golfs statt, was Chemieunternehmen aus den USA zugutekommt. Auf lange Sicht dürfte der Nahe Osten jedoch seinen Kundenstamm behalten, da er nach wie vor über die zwei Hebel verfügt, um auf dem Weltmarkt wettbewerbsfähig zu sein – eine umfangreiche Produktionsbasis und vor allem
Während der ersten drei Monate des Krieges der USA und Israels mit dem Iran war die vorherrschende Stimmung an den Ölmärkten, dass der Konflikt jeden Tag enden könnte. Der kurze Waffenstillstand im Juni verstärkte diesen Optimismus, sodass es eine Weile dauerte, bis man den Tatsachen ins Auge sah: Der Krieg würde nicht so bald enden. Er könnte sich sogar bis ins nächste Jahr erstrecken – und das bedeutet dauerhaft höhere Preise. Der ICE Brent Crude Futures-Kontrakt für Januar 2027 wird bei 102,59 USD pro Barrel gehandelt. Der Kontrakt für Juni 2027 liegt mit 92,71 USD pro Barrel nur geringfügi
A ship’s anchor can wreak havoc on the world’s undersea infrastructure, something that has provided plenty of rich material for Splash reporting in recent years. For Elisabeth Braw, the Cook Islands-flagged tanker Eagle S provides one of the most brazen examples. On Christmas Day 2024, the vessel was accused of dragging its anchor 90 km …
Borderlands Mexico is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week in Borderlands Mexico: US takes 76% of vehicle exports as September shipments plunge; DSV expands US-Mexico freight operations with McAllen office; and Texas university seeks $772,700 for AI-powered Laredo freight project. US takes 76% of vehicle exports as September shipments plunge More than three-quarters of Mexico’s light-vehicle exports were destined for the U.S. during the first nine months of 2026, underscoring the importance of cross-border automotive t
Australien steht kurz vor der Vorstellung einer endgültigen Fassung eines umstrittenen Plans, der Flüssigerdgas-Produzenten dazu zwingt, bis zu ein Fünftel ihrer Produktion für lokale Abnehmer zu reservieren.
Crude oil prices, which dipped on Tuesday, reversed their direction, with Brent ticking above $100 again earlier today following reports of fresh Houthi attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $101.49 per barrel and West Texas Intermediate was changing hands for $90.14 per barrel, despite a statement from Saudi Arabia’s energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, who said Tuesday the kingdom’s oil flows via the Rast-West pipeline had rebounded to 5.8 million barrels daily. The statement…
Shipping markets rarely announce the top with any clarity. More often, the argument about whether the peak has arrived only really starts when freight rates are still climbing, asset values are making less and less conventional sense and owners are sufficiently confident to keep buying ships at prices that would have looked ridiculous a few …
The transits are a lifeline to gulf energy producers and a boon to shipowners and commodity traders who stand to reap billions of dollars from the trade.
Tajikistan announced that it is now receiving oil and petroleum products from Iran, opening a potential new energy source for a country whose fuel supplies have long been dominated by Russia. The deliveries began in late August, Tajikistan's Energy and Water Resources Ministry told the Asia-Plus news agency, following talks between the two countries on expanding cooperation in the oil and gas sector. The ministry has not disclosed the volume of the shipments, their commercial terms, or how the oil and petroleum products were transported to Tajikistan.…
Iranian oil is disappearing from the market just as its biggest buyer returns for more. China’s recovering crude demand is colliding with the loss of a supplier that sustained its independent refiners through the crisis, forcing them to compete for increasingly expensive alternatives. The consequences reach beyond China: every replacement barrel tightens supplies for other buyers, while Tehran faces a growing incentive to disrupt the Strait of Hormuz, which is now carrying an unexpectedly strong 13 million barrels a day (just 5 million below…
Die Ölpreise gaben am Dienstag nach und machten die jüngsten Gewinne wieder wett, da Investoren Anzeichen einer Erholung der Exporte durch Produzenten im Nahen Osten gegen die Unsicherheit bezüglich des Ausgangs des Iran-Kriegs abwägten. Brent-Rohöl für die Lieferung im November fiel um 1,5 % auf 103,72 USD pro Barrel um 13:10 Uhr ET, während WTI-Rohöl für die Lieferung im Oktober um 2,2 % auf 90,62 USD/bbl nachgab. Die Rohölexporte aus der Region stiegen im September auf 15,5 Millionen Barrel pro Tag, was mehr als 80 % des Vorkriegsniveaus entspricht und der höchste Stand seit Beginn des Konf
Amid regulatory uncertainty, there is one key challenge to ensuring shipping meets its decarbonization goals: making the right decisions today. DNV’s latest edition of Maritime Forecast to 2050 explores how different scenarios could reshape fuel demand, investment decisions, and decarbonization pathways, helping shipowners to navigate uncertainty and build resilient fleets. Shipping’s energy transition has entered ...
The Chinese market remains the largest one in terms of seaborne crude oil imports, after the first eight months of 2026. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Banchero Costa said that “after a marginal decline in 2024, when global crude oil loadings decreased by -0.2% y-o-y, things picked up in 2025, with full-year volumes increasing ...
Peter Sand, Xeneta Chief Analyst: “For the high-flying spot rates from Far East to US East and West Coasts, we may just begin to see the end of that rising trend as we get into the first half of October. When comparing today’s spot rates to the level experienced on 1 July – shippers are ...
SUNY Maritime College’s training ship Empire State VII has been ordered to depart New York on September 30 for Norfolk, Virginia, where it will undergo a month-long activation and flight deck certification...
The VLCC market has reached levels that would have sounded absurd only months ago. Middle East-China earnings have pushed beyond $1m a day, Atlantic routes have surged into the hundreds of thousands and secondhand values have exploded to the point where rust-stained 15-year-old VLCCs are changing hands for more than newbuilds. The argument now dividing …
Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras has struck a two-decade-long deal with Sempra Infrastructure, a subsidiary of Sempra, for the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from a U.S. project under development in Jefferson County, Texas. The post Petrobras locks in 20-year US supply from Sempra’s LNG project in Lone Star State appeared first on Offshore Energy .
Sempra Infrastructure signed a 20-year agreement to supply about 0.8 million metric tons per annum of liquefied natural gas to Petrobras from the under-construction Port Arthur LNG phase 2 project in Texas.
China’s diesel fuel and gasoline inventories are declining, which may eventually lead to the imposition of export curbs, Bloomberg has reported, citing recent fuel inventory data. Gasoline inventories at state-owned energy majors were down by 2.9% last week to their lowest level since 2022, according to Chinese commodity market research firm JLC International. Diesel inventories are sitting at the lowest in 15 months, booking a 2.4% dip last week, the publication noted. “With the domestic market tightening, we see an increasing risk…
For the first four months of the war between the United States and Israel and Iran, oil traders remained largely bearish. The overwhelming expectation was that the war would end soon—even as July rolled around—and oil flows out of Hormuz would recover. Instead, the world is slipping into a fuel shortage, and traders have gone bullish. They are especially bullish on fuels in the United States, it seems. The world’s biggest crude oil consumer and the biggest exporter of crude and fuels has not managed to avoid a supply squeeze at…
The defining feature of the current asset market is not limited to five-year-old tonnage trading above newbuilding prices. Repricing spans the entire age curve and intensifies with vessel age. VLCC values are up 30% year-over-year at five years, 42% at ten years, 61% at fifteen years, and 90% at twenty years. The Suezmax curve shows ...
The EU ETS is expected to keep impacting shipping both in the near and in the long term, following the latest gas price increases. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Intermodal said that “the EUA market maintained its upward trend in August, despite the quieter trading conditions and lower liquidity that typically characterize the holiday ...
Washington’s takeover of more than a fifth of Venezuela’s oil reserves in a deal officially signed by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on 2 September was as unexpected as it was dramatic, with President Donald Trump’s comment a few days earlier that it is “the biggest oil deal in world history” looking justified from several perspectives. From a pure volume standpoint, the deal covers 65 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves (out of Venezuela’s total 303 billion barrels) across 17 fields. To put that…
Capesize The market enjoyed a notably bullish week, recovering strongly after the UK holiday-shortened start and building momentum across both basins. Early weakness in the Pacific quickly proved short-lived as sustained miner participation tightened available tonnage and restored confidence. By midweek, all major miners were actively fixing, driving C5 steadily higher and attracting increasingly aggressive ...
Rates for shipping containers from east Asia and China to the US were mostly higher this week while rates for liquid chemical tankers ex-US Gulf were mostly softer, all while schedule reliability is decreasing because of congestion at Asia ports. PORT CONGESTION Global container vessel schedule reliability dropped to 56.4% in July 2026, a decline ...
The tanker market could experience an increase of flows from West to East in the coming years, following the 65 billion barrel deal between the US and Venezuela. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Gibson said that “last Friday, President Trump announced that the US had reached an agreement to control 65 billion barrels of ...
Greek owner Sea Pioneer Shipping has emerged as the company behind SK Oceanplant’s recently announced series of six firm plus two optional aframax tankers. Market sources have identified the Vasilis Bacolitsas-led owner as the previously unnamed Greek customer behind six 115,000 dwt crude carriers at the South Korean yard, with two further options attached. SK …
By Alexandra Valencia and Yury Garcia QUITO, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Ecuador defended on Friday U.S. operations that intercepted and sank three Ecuadorean vessels this week, while relatives of some crew members...
OSLO, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Norway will provide necessary assistance to Russians in the Arctic Svalbard islands following the arrest of a ship transporting passengers and supplies to the archipelago, the Nordic...
A new project is seeking to turn cattle manure into a source of sustainable natural gas for energy production and shipping fuel. The initiative just broke ground in Broken Bow, Nebraska, where eight anaerobic digesters will process waste from the Adams Land & Cattle feedlot into what the project leads are hoping will be a lucrative and eco-friendly source of approximately 1.2 million MMBtu of pipeline-quality natural gas per year. “The Adams Land & Cattle RNG facility demonstrates how American agriculture can play an important role…
Governments worldwide are racing to develop small modular reactors (SMRs) as part of their plans for a nuclear power renaissance, with significant progress being seen in recent years. However, the United States appears to be leading the way in nuclear microreactor development, with significant investment in the technology recently announced by the U.S. Army. SMRs are advanced nuclear reactors with a power capacity of up to 300 MW(e) per unit, or around one-third of the generating capacity of a conventional nuclear reactor. They are much smaller…
The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States stayed the same this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, with the total rig count in the US staying at 588, up 51 from this same time last year. The number of active oil rigs rose by 2, reaching 449 during the latest reporting period, according to the data. This is 35 above this same time last year. The number of gas rigs fell by 2 to 130, which is 12 more than this time last year. Miscellaneous rigs stayed the same at 9. The latest EIA…
Citadel is shopping for U.S. oil production assets, including a previous bid for WildFire Energy before Magnolia Oil & Gas agreed to buy the Eagle Ford producer for $4.06 billion. Reuters reported Friday that the hedge fund and commodities trader has held talks with several private-equity owners of oil-weighted exploration and production companies in recent weeks. WildFire would have given Citadel roughly 53,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day of production, about 70% of it oil, plus 810,000 net acres in South Texas. Magnolia ultimately won…
Ukraine’s top sanctions official says he remains optimistic about prospects for a sweeping Russia sanctions bill in the US Congress despite growing uncertainty over when the House of Representatives will take it up, as lawmakers face a sharply shortened legislative calendar ahead of the November elections. Vladyslav Vlasiuk, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s sanctions commissioner, spent this week in Washington meeting lawmakers and congressional staff as Kyiv presses Congress to advance the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia…
With the overall jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing a surprisingly big jump in employment, truck transportation participated in that rebound. The monthly report showed truck transportation employment rising 4,800 jobs to 1,470,300. It’s the highest level of jobs in the sector since October. But with employment since then mostly trending down each month, the number of jobs in the sector is still about 10,000 jobs less than it was a year ago. window.googletag = window.googletag || {cmd: []}; googletag.cmd.push(function() { var gptSlot = googletag.defineSlot('/21776187881/FW-
IBIA – The International Bunker Industry Association will bring together leading figures from across the global marine energy and shipping industries at its 2026 Annual Convention, taking place 10–12 November at the New York Marriott Downtown. The Convention will address the key issues shaping the marine fuels sector, including regulation and policy, fuel quality, alternative ...
Small and midsize shippers are often forced to stitch together various tools for parcel labels, freight quotes, tracking, and much more. The fragmentation gets more expensive as a business grows past pure e-commerce, since the moment a merchant needs to move inventory between warehouses or ship a pallet instead of a box, they’re forced out of whatever platform runs their day-to-day shipping and into unfamiliar territory. ShipStation Global CEO Tom Madine has built the company’s post-merger strategy around closing that gap, knowing that the same merchants who came to the platform for parcel lab
China’s oil consumption fell 9% year over year in the second quarter as expensive crude accelerated the use of electric cars, trucks, rail and industrial equipment. The decline helped cut China’s carbon dioxide emissions by 1% during the quarter, according to an analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. It was the first quarterly emissions decline in China driven primarily by lower oil consumption. Power-sector emissions rose 3% during the same period as coal-fired generation increased. Electric vehicles displaced…
It was a relatively subdued Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit for Chinese leader Xi Jinping. He departed the host city Bishkek having made few attention-grabbing headlines. There were no big announcements or viral moments, unlike at 2025’s SCO summit on Xi’s home turf in the Chinese city of Tianjin. In Bishkek, there were no photos of Xi, Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi cutting up together sans interpreters, nor Putin and Xi caught on hot mics discussing how to live for 150 years, nor…
Shop price inflation has hit a two-year high and is set to climb through the autumn as a surge in energy and commodity costs filters through to consumers, a top business group has found. The British Retail Consortium (BRC), which represents major supermarkets and high street shops across the UK, warned that shop price inflation increased to 1.5 per cent in the year to August. The higher rate of price rises compares to a rise of 0.9 per cent in the year to July and a three-month average of 1.2 per cent. Shop price inflation was at the…
Geodis has promoted Veronique Dameme to chief commercial officer for its global freight forwarding business, effective today. Ms Dameme brings more than 30 years’ experience in the logistics sector, including 17 years in the US, with expertise spanning international business development, customer strategy and global supply chains. She has particular experience in the healthcare and life sciences sector, having joined Geodis in October 2025 as sales director for healthcare and life sciences ... The post Dameme steps up as Geodis CCO appeared first on The Loadstar .
China-based provider of clean energy services Wison New Energies (WNE) has joined forces with the UK-headquartered energy giant Shell to bring the European firm’s liquefaction technology to the wider liquefied natural gas (LNG) market for the first time, strengthening Wison’s floating LNG (FLNG) offering and aiming to accelerate deployment of next-generation FLNG projects. The post Shell’s technology set to enter wider FLNG market through Wison deal appeared first on Offshore Energy .
Iran on Monday dismissed as “laughable” a Truth Social AI-generated post by U.S. President Donald Trump that the key Iranian oil export hub of Kharg Island is “being blown to smithereens”, as tensions in the Middle East boiled up again with U.S. attacks and Iranian claims of retaliatory strikes. President Trump late on Sunday posted an AI-generated video on his Truth Social platform, with the caption “Kharg Island being blown to smithereens!!! President DJT”. In response to the post, Iran on Monday said, via…
There is always a winner in any major global oil crisis. In 1973/74, it was Saudi Arabia and its OPEC brothers who shifted the balance of power in the market away from the previous arrangement dominated by the West’s ‘Seven Sisters’ to the oil producers of the Middle East. After the 2014-2016 Oil Price War, it was the U.S. whose earlier nascent shale oil sector resisted the threat to its very existence from Saudi Arabia and OPEC, reorganising into a meaner, leaner, lower-cost oil production machine. The U.S. was the winner again…
Chart of the Week: Accepted Truckload Volume Index, SONAR Truckload Rejection Index – USA SONAR : ASTVI.USA, STRI.USA The Accepted SONAR Truckload Volume Index (ASTVI), which measures the volume of truckload tenders carriers accept for loads moved under existing rate agreements, averaged around 9,800 last week. The SONAR Truckload Rejection Index (STRI), which measures the percentage of tendered loads rejected, hovered around 13.5%. While both are down from their 12-month highs, together they suggest the current truckload market cycle is more supply-driven than any in recent history — and stil
Borderlands Mexico is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week in Borderlands Mexico: Nuevo León governor pitches border boom as Texas-Mexico freight surges; NADBank plans nearly $164M in water projects; and Otay Business Park completes first phase near US-Mexico border. Nuevo León governor pitches border boom as Texas-Mexico freight surges Nuevo León Gov. Samuel García is betting billions of dollars in infrastructure, industrial development and security investments can help transform the Mexican state into an increasingly
'The acquisition of EDGE expands Sapphire's LNG capabilities by adding approximately 200,000 gallons of daily LNG liquefaction capacity through modular equipment currently serving clients in the Southern U.S.'
By Baris Balci Aug 30, 2026 (Bloomberg) — At least six people died after a high-speed ferry carrying about 267 capsized while sailing from Kyrenia in northern Cyprus to Tasucu in southern...
