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...
On Tuesday, a press release from the ILA called for a shutdown of ports along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts to protest job losses and highlight hiring practices that purposely reduce the numbers of dockworkers, causing immeasurable damage to...
Port of Virginia surpassed 200,000 TEUs for ninth consecutive month and expects to exceed 2.5 million TEUs for 2015! We’ve been watching the Port of Virginia for the last several months as though they’re an underdog in a championship,...
The situation between the PMA and the ILWU has reached, what many consider, to be the breaking point. After working more than nine months without a contract, the PMA this week announced that they do not plan to order...
With congestion on the West Coast showing no signs of abating, carriers have attempted to recover their costs for this congestion through a series of on-again, off-again surcharges. They are of the mindset that the combination of a surge...
While we wish that there was more news that we could focus on, things have gotten so utterly ugly along the West Coast that we feel it best to provide our clients, agents and business partners with the best...
Depending upon who you listen to, there are multiple explanations for what is happening at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach right now. Regardless of the explanation, the fact is that congestion is at critical levels and...
