According to a statement made this morning to Bloomberg, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are effectively shut down as workers didn’t turn up again this morning after workers last night refused the work assignments given last...
The Port of Virginia has set another record for its most productive July ever. Coming in at 318,000 TEUs in July, the port moved over 24,500 TEUs more than July of 2021, an increase of 8.4%. As the fourth...
Air freight rates rise again with the Ukraine invasion by Russia, but that’s to be expected. As the air freight market becomes increasingly paralyzed and expensive, more air lines are suspending flights, but not just to Russia; Korea, China,...
When container ships jumped from carrying 6,000 Twenty-foot Equivalent Units (TEU’s) to 10,000 or more TEU’s per vessel, Beneficial Cargo Owners (BCO) and shippers started scratching their heads questioning why ocean carriers decided the hub ports could handle that...
Nothing’s a bigger head scratcher this week for BCO’s and shippers at the TPM22 conference in Long Beach, than why ocean carriers decided to deploy bigger ships without consulting hub ports on if they could even handle them in...
Snow storms hit the Port of Virginia twice in late January, shutting down the port both times, and increasing congestion that port officials believe will be cleared out in just a few short weeks. It started out with 11...
Thanks to the semi-automated cranes in the container yard and the two marine terminals linked by barge services at the Port of Virginia, the port has been able to alleviate backlogs that have slammed other ports on the USEC....
President Trump announced on Monday that the USTR will place additional tariffs of $200 billion imports from China. Set to take effect on Monday, September 24, 2018 at ten percent and rising to twenty-five percent on January 1, 2019,...
On July 20, Nippon Cargo Airlines received a mandate from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transportation and Tourism, (MLIT) for a Business Improvement Order after their entire fleet was grounded when an investigation by Japan’s Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB)...
On July 10th, the US Trade Representative announced the third list of HTS numbers that will be hit with penalties on imports from China. The escalating trade war between the United States and China continues to flare up around...
