2 min
The newsroom
Seven reporters and editors on four continents, one beat each.
Maren Okafor
View AllShipping editor. Twelve years on the waterfront, three of them on a feeder ship's bridge as a cadet. Writes about ports, boxes and the people who move them.
5 min
No One on the Bridge
2 min
The Morning Manifest: Fog on the Elbe, copper's road, a ship with no crew
3 min
When the Lake Runs Low: How Shipowners Plan Around the Canal's Dry Season
2 min
The Morning Manifest: Dollar invoices, copper's squeeze, a ship that burns its cargo
3 min
Container Rates Fall for a Sixth Week. Here Is Where the Slack Is.
Kenji Arakawa
View AllData editor. Builds the trackers, maps and indices behind our stories, and the weekly figures card. Believes every chart should survive a phone screen.
3 min
The Manifest, Episode 40: Fog, Copper and the Crewless Ship
3 min
Salt, Seen From Above
3 min
The Factory That Works in the Dark
3 min
The Pallet Economy: Two Billion Wooden Squares That Hold Up Trade
3 min
The Heat Pump Factory Town That Bet on One Product
2 min
The Chokepoint Tracker
Priya Venkataraman
View AllEnergy editor. LNG, bunker fuels and the grid, from the tank farm to the tariff sheet. Trained as a chemical engineer before she learned to write about it.
4 min
The Ship That Runs on Its Own Cargo
3 min
Bitcoin Miners Are Buying the Gas Oil Fields Used to Burn
3 min
First Ammonia Bunkering: Six Hours, One Hose, Nobody Smelled a Thing
3 min
Four Rotor Sails and a Headwind: A Week on a Wind-Assisted Bulk Carrier
3 min
Offshore Wind's Real Bottleneck Is a Ship With Legs
3 min
Stacked to the Ceiling: What a Warehouse of Unsold Solar Panels Says About the Market
Jonas Halvorsen
View AllCovers currencies, central banks and trade finance: the plumbing that turns a cargo into a payment. Keeps the tape on his second screen.
2 min
Live: Dollar Slips as Asian Exporters Convert Their Receipts
4 min
Why Your Freight Is Still Invoiced in Dollars
3 min
Yen at the Dock: What a Weak Currency Does to Japan's Shipowners
3 min
London's Marine Insurers Price In a Stronger Pound
3 min
Settled On-Chain: A Tanker Charter Paid in Stablecoins
3 min
The Gold Is Moving East, One Pallet at a Time
Tomás Reyes
View AllCommodities correspondent covering copper, lithium and grain from the Andes to the Black Sea. Former metals trader; still reads warehouse reports for fun.
2 min
Live: Copper Jumps After a Landslide Cuts an Andean Mine Road
3 min
Copper's Quiet Squeeze: Why Smelters Are Paying Miners to Take Their Ore
3 min
Two and a Half Kilometres of Iron: Riding the Longest Ore Train
3 min
The Bean Counters: How a Warehouse Receipt Became a Trading Weapon
3 min
The Grain Corridor, Told by the People Who Load It
6 min
White Gold, Blue Ponds: A Year at the Edge of a Lithium Brine Field
Leila Farahani
View AllTrade policy reporter. Tariffs, rules of origin and customs code, explained with the objects they apply to. Owns more felt-soled shoes than she needs.
3 min
The Customs Broker's New Colleague Reads Invoices Faster Than She Does
4 min
How a Bicycle Gets Its Nationality
3 min
Tariff Engineering, or Why Your Sneakers Have Felt on the Soles
5 min
Chokepoints: The Narrow Places That Carry a Third of Everything
2 min
The Weekend Edition: Chokepoints
6 min
The Border Town Built of Warehouses
Ruth Abernathy
View AllColumnist. Thirty years as an economist at ports, banks and one very small shipping line. Writes on Mondays and argues on every other day.
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