By Jorge Valverde, United Nations University China recently banned the export of the minerals gallium and germanium to the US amid growing tensions between the…
Op-Ed by Emily Thompson The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is lifting most sanctions imposed on Niger over last year’s coup in an…
By Michael Snyder Do you remember the supply chain problems that we experienced during the darkest days of the COVID pandemic? Well, now we are…
By Dr. Mathew Maavak Too many punditries have portrayed the Israel-Hamas war and Houthi attacks along the Red Sea as the next Black Swan events….
By Tyler Durden Major shipping companies are rerouting vessels from the Red Sea to the Cape of Good Hope to avoid Houthi drone and missile attacks….
By Tyler Durden Amid further attacks and reroutings…we look at the true scale of the Houthi attacks on MidEast tankers. Suez update: 46 container ships…
By Tyler Durden A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, the world’s largest owner of container ships and one of the best bellwethers for global trade, has spent the…
By Tyler Durden The latest Bloomberg Trade Tracker reveals an ominous outlook for world trade due to soaring interest rates, the war in Ukraine, a…
By Mac Slavo Some of the largest shipping companies in the world are seeing a collapse in worldwide trade. United States-based shipper FedEx and Danish…
By Tyler Durden In a groundbreaking development, Iran has made its first-ever import arrangement using cryptocurrency, according to Iran’s Tasnim News Agency. “This week, the…
By Tyler Durden While it should come as no surprise to those who have been following our reporting on the epic bottlenecks and congestion across…
By Robert Wheeler The recent warnings of an imminent collapse in the U.S. aren’t paranoia or typical doom saying by writers warning of crashes for…
By Tyler Durden The giant Ever Given container ship was dislodged from the Suez Canal bank on Monday, and traffic has since resumed, with more than 400…
By Robert Wheeler Update from Zero Hedge: Megaship Blocking Suez Canal Has Been “Freed” (0944ET): With Ever Given officially dislodged and transiting down the canal,…