Insights and Stories on Global Shipping

A soybean crop in Manitoba's Interlake in 2022.

U.S. soybean exports risk 20 per cent drop without improved China deal

May. 14, 2025 at 10:29 am CDT

U.S. soybean exports may drop 20 per cent and prices will plunge if the United States and China fail to resolve their trade dispute limiting U.S. soybeans from their largest market, agribusiness consultancy AgResource said on Wednesday.

Dark clouds gather in the sky before a thunder shower in Nagaon District, Assam, India, on April 10, 2025.

India forecasts above average monsoon rains in boost to crop output, economy

Apr. 15, 2025 at 10:10 am CDT

By Rajendra Jadhav and Mayank Bhardwaj Reuters

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 2, 2025.

How are U.S. tariffs affecting American agricultural trade so far?

Apr. 9, 2025 at 11:52 am CDT

By Geralyn Wichers Reuters

Trump trade threats compound global ocean shipping uncertainty

Mar. 3, 2025 at 10:47 am CST

By Lisa Baertlein Reuters

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

Tentative labour deal heads off US port disruption; Trump credited

Jan. 10, 2025 at 9:46 am CST

By Daniel Wiessner Lisa Baertlein Reuters

Trump suggests U.S. should retake control of Panama Canal

Dec. 23, 2024 at 9:44 am CST

President-elect Donald Trump threatened to reassert U.S. control over the Panama Canal on Sunday, accusing Panama of charging excessive rates to use the Central American passage and drawing a sharp rebuke from Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino.

By Gram Slattery Reuters

US port strike disrupts hamburger supplies, frozen seafood

Oct. 2, 2024 at 4:00 pm CDT

Dockworkers striking at U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast ports are preventing imports of beef that restaurants and retailers increasingly rely on to make hamburgers due to limited domestic supplies, traders and industry members said.

By P.J. Huffstutter Reuters Tom Polansek

White House sides with union as US dockworker strike enters second day

Oct. 2, 2024 at 9:45 am CDT

New York | Reuters — President Joe Biden’s administration heaped pressure on U.S. port employers to raise their offer to secure a labour deal with dockworkers on strike for a second day on Wednesday, choking half the country’s ocean shipping. The strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union has […]

By Doyinsola Oladipo Reuters

US East Coast dockworkers strike, halting half the nation’s ocean shipping

Oct. 1, 2024 at 9:23 am CDT

Dockworkers on the U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast began a strike early on Tuesday, their first large-scale stoppage in nearly 50 years, halting the flow of about half the nation's ocean shipping after negotiations for a new labour contract broke down over wages.

By David Shepardson Doyinsola Oladipo Reuters

U.S. port strike threatens vital trade arteries

Sep. 25, 2024 at 10:17 am CDT

Some 45,000 union workers could walk off the job at seaports on the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts on Oct 1, cutting off vital trade arteries just weeks ahead of the nation's presidential election.

By Reuters

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