Transpacific Stablisation Agreement (TSA) carriers hope of a good shipping season though shippers must brace themselves to pay more as the 2013 annual contract talks get underway.

THE tit-for-tat tariffs between the US and China is sending shivers down the spines of America's port authorities that fear the intensifying trade row will crimp shipments and lower port revenues

AS the smouldering 7,501-TEU Yantian Express heads to Freeport in the Bahamas after a devastating fire, shippers brace themselves for heavy losses now that a General Average (GA) has been declared by Hapag-Lloyd