Severe congestion and equipment shortages are erupting across the United States and being felt in Asia and Europe. As imports from Asia surge into the west coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The congestion is causing disruption...
Containers are a hot commodity for shippers in Asia. With imports near historic records in the US and more often containers from Asia are entering our country to meet the skyrocketing demand (and rates, honestly) containers are in short...
Intermodal congestion in Southern California climbed to unprecedented levels in recent days as equipment shortages, workforce reductions, and with more demand for ocean imports from Asia via the U.S. West Coast causes another cargo delay on top of this....
Tariff talks between the US and China have stalled regarding the agriculture buy that China is expected to make in efforts to restart the negotiations. After a wild year of back and forth, some movement was expected after the...
No, we don’t ever get tired of writing about the astonishing growth of our local Port of Virginia. Here we are, again in another January, reporting back the incredible numbers posted for 2018. While this isn’t a fiscal year...
Someday we’re going to report on a year where the Port of Virginia isn’t breaking records. We’ll discuss what ways we can deploy to reinvigorate our ocean cargo and reminisce on the glory days when we were posting almost...
After a lackluster January and February, the Port of Virginia is once again posting gains as March volumes increased 9% over the same month of 2017. As the Port of Virginia works diligently to increase service and efficiency, they’re...
Slowing import growth at container ports started in April though the total volume of containers handled should hit an all-time high by the end of the summer. Forecasts estimate that while summer numbers will continue to grow month over...
In another successful month, the Port of Virginia shows a 9% increase over March 2016 in container volumes for March 2017 as they moved 232,148 TEUs in preparation for the arrival of the COSCO Development – a 13,000 TEU...
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, the US Justice Department raid on the Box Club meeting in late March was due to suspected collusion against tug boat operators by global shipping alliances. The increased attention on...
