The definition of "breakbulk" forever changed on April 26, 1956, when Malcom McLean's SS Ideal-X, the first commercial container ship, was loaded in Newark, New Jersey, and set sail for Houston.

Just more than a month ago, 5,000 attendees and 300 exhibitors gathered at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center to take part in the 25th anniversary of Breakbulk Americas 2014, which serves the ...

Breakbulk cargo – also referred to as non-containerized or project cargo – is too large to fit in standard containers. They are neither dry aggregates nor liquid. Construction machinery (like large ...

Despite an uptick in container and cruise passenger revenue, the Port of New Orleans continues to experience a drop in breakbulk tonnage due to steel tariffs enacted on the federal level in 2018.

As rates for container and handy-size bulk carriers have escalated, these operators have been discouraged from competing for breakbulk cargo. This is good news for breakbulk shippers and the network ...

As an extracurricular class activity, a group of San Jacinto College students attended the recent Breakbulk Americas conference in downtown Houston as part of the College’s International Business and ...

Logistec has agreed to acquire IPA Terminal in Altamira, Mexico, expanding its network into Latin America. The post Canadian ...

Wind components, vessels and modules, ACT rounds up several significant breakbulk cargo projects. Cross country or overseas, breakbulk cargo can be offloaded at nearly any port in the world. But this ...

Across the Americas, the energy project market is booming. To tap into project opportunities, there’s no better place than Breakbulk Americas in Houston – it’s where project decisions are made and ...

IRPT initiated discussions with BBEU26 following the announcement of its inaugural European Summit, designed to connect U.S.

The Port of New Orleans says it’s feeling the fallout of global uncertainty over trade sanctions and new steel tariffs recently put in place by President Donald Trump‘s administration. The Port of New ...