The Normalcy of American Wars

Hormuz In The Rearview As Asia-US Ocean Container Rates Soar Past $7,900 By Stuart Chirls of AmericanShipper The container shipping market is being driven by geopolitics, rates, and network reshuffling, but freight-rate volatility and adjustments by carriers to protect schedules and pricing has supplanted Middle East disruptions as top-level concerns. Asia-U.S. West Coast prices increased 8% to $6,175 per forty foot equivalent unit (FEU), according to Freightos, a data contributor to SONAR ocean market data. Prices for Asia-U.S. East Coast transportation also rose 8%, to $7,998 per FEU. SONAR‘s Ocean Supply/Demand Index reflects the...

Warships, Helicopters, Transport Planes: US Military Shifts Assets To Quake-Ravaged Venezuela Venezuela's massive twin-earthquake disaster, which unfolded on Wednesday evening, has left dozens of apartment towers and other structures in ruins. The death toll has climbed to about 235, with at least 4,300 people injured. On one independent monitoring platform, the number of missing topped 50,000 overnight. The sheer scale of the disaster across several districts of Caracas has prompted an international response, with the U.S. Southern Command deploying military assets to the quake-ravaged country. The disaster also marks a...

US Africa Command announced on Tuesday that its forces launched an airstrike in Somalia on July 13 as the Trump administration continues its record-breaking bombing campaign in the country, a war that is ignored by US media. AFRICOM said that its forces targeted al-Shabaab in the vicinity of Sablaale, a town about 120 miles southwest […]