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...
As ocean rates start to slump, carriers are pulling out the blank sailings trick to try and adjust the capacity available to match the decreasing demand. After the explosive profits around the pandemic, ocean carriers are laser-focused on preventing...
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...
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...
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....
We’ve noted previously the issues happening on the U.S. West Coast as imports soar and containers flood into ports, ready to hit store shelves in time for the holiday season. After a wobbly start to the year as Chinese...
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....
