Insights and Stories of Lisa Baertlein

A tugboat passes shipping containers being unloaded and stacked on a pier at Port Newark, New Jersey, U.S., November 19, 2021.

Proposed U.S. port fees on China-built ships choking coal, agriculture exports

Mar. 19, 2025 at 4:24 pm CDT

U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to revive U.S. shipbuilding using massive fees on China-linked ship visits to American ports is causing U.S. coal inventories to swell and stoking uncertainty in the embattled agriculture market, as exporters struggle to find ships to send goods abroad.

Trump trade threats compound global ocean shipping uncertainty

Mar. 3, 2025 at 10:47 am CST

By Lisa Baertlein Reuters

Tentative labour deal heads off US port disruption; Trump credited

Jan. 10, 2025 at 9:46 am CST

By Daniel Wiessner Lisa Baertlein Reuters

Container rates soar on concerns of prolonged Red Sea disruption, inflation

Jan. 12, 2024 at 1:43 pm CST

By Jonathan Saul Lisa Baertlein Reuters

Biggest U.S. rail union rejects tentative deal, raising threat of strike

Nov. 21, 2022 at 5:17 pm CST

By David Shepardson Lisa Baertlein

U.S. government makes contingency plans for rail shutdown

Sep. 13, 2022 at 5:19 pm CDT

Washington/Los Angeles | Reuters — U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday made contingency plans aiming to ensure deliveries of critical goods in the event of a shutdown of the U.S. rail system while pressing railroads and unions to reach a deal to avoid a work stoppage affecting freight and […]

By David Shepardson Lisa Baertlein

‘Containergeddon’: Supply crisis drives Walmart, rivals to hire own ships

Oct. 7, 2021 at 4:53 pm CDT

Los Angeles | Reuters — The Flying Buttress once glided across the oceans carrying vital commodities such as grain to all corners of the world. Now it bears a different treasure: Paw Patrol Movie Towers, Batmobile Transformers and Baby Alive Lulu Achoo dolls. The dry bulk cargo ship has been […]

By Jonathan Saul Lisa Baertlein siddharth-cavale

Florence shuts down U.S. slaughterhouses

Sep. 18, 2018 at 4:19 am CDT

Chicago/Los Angeles | Reuters — U.S. food companies kept slaughter plants shut on Monday in southeastern states swamped by Hurricane Florence as flash floods collapsed the walls of at least two hog manure pits, made roads undriveable and delayed rail shipments. Catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Florence, which has dumped up […]

By Lisa Baertlein Tom Polansek

McDonald’s sets greenhouse gas reduction targets

Mar. 20, 2018 at 1:25 pm CDT

Reuters — McDonald’s Corp. on Tuesday announced what it describes as an approved, science-based target to cut greenhouse gas emissions and battle climate change, saying it is the first restaurant company to do so. Under a plan several years in the making, the fast-food company — along with its franchisees […]

By Lisa Baertlein

Appeals court revives California ban on foie gras

Sep. 15, 2017 at 2:16 pm CDT

Reuters — A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday revived a California state law banning the sale of foie gras made from force-fed birds. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a January 2015 lower court ruling striking down the law, saying the judge erred in concluding that the […]

By jonathan-stempel Lisa Baertlein

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