Shippers have long complained about unfair detention and demurrage fees at the ports. A particular point of contention is getting charged for days when port terminals are closed, and it's [...]
The Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) released an images to the media of trucks backed up on Friday from a terminal at the Port of Los Angeles. Labor action by the International Longshore & [...]
It's become something of a habit when talking about the sister ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to mention they're the busiest port complex in the U.S. in terms of cargo volume brought in [...]
2022 is just days away from being over, so it's time to look forward to 2023. We'll probably have a few posts focused on what the year will have in store for international shipping, but today we [...]
Importers, and shippers in general, had a rough couple of years when it came to international shipping after the pandemic hit. But the landscape, or ocean-scape, looks quite different now. [...]
As shippers expected, more International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) slowdowns are happening at West Coast ports as contract negotiations lag on. Labor action is creating slowdowns at the [...]
West Coast ports, East Coast ports, Gulf Coast ports... we're seeing congestion all over. A great deal of the focus lately has been on congestion at East and Gulf Coast ports as many shippers are [...]
Shippers have more fees – or at least faster racking-up fees – to worry about at the Port of New York and New Jersey. Michael Angell reports in the Journal of Commerce (JOC): "The largest marine [...]
Afer two years of port congestion and supply chain disruption and with new powers from the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (“OSRA 2022”), the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is considering [...]
The Port of Oakland is back to full operation after truckers, with an assist from ILWU members, screeched the port to a halt last week over Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5). The port says it will take [...]
The Port of Oakland can no longer claim operations have not been affected by truckers striking over the California's Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5), which ends the independent owner and operator model of [...]
It seems like every time you turn around there's a new fee announced at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Sometimes those fees are merely threats in a less-than-successful attempt to speed [...]
There are many world events affecting current and upcoming ocean freight rates. Sanctions on Russia with its aggression on Ukraine obviously affects cargo movement to and from that region, and [...]
The Biden Administration's port envoy is stepping down reports Peter Tirschwell in the Journal of Commerce (JOC): John Porcari, the White House’s port envoy, will step down from the role in [...]
There are two news stories worthy of shippers' attention today. The first pertains to air freight while the second has to do with ocean freight. On the air side, we have a story about suspended [...]
The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach announced another postponement in the assessment of the enormous fees they originally announced were going into effect on November 1st. When announced, the [...]
The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach seem happy to keep dangling the threat of incredibly high container dwell fees to induce movement of import shipping containers out of the ports' [...]
At the beginning of the month, we blogged about $100-per-day fines the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach were to impose on carriers for lingering containers. The carriers immediately said [...]
How about some good news for a change? There was a cyber attack on the Port of Houston. No, that's not the good news. The good news is the port was able to thwart the attack. Last week, the port [...]
Let’s talk rail and what’s happening with getting shipping containers out of the Port of Los Angeles, so your goods can get to your businesses around the U.S. Universal Cargo’s [...]