The dockworkers’ union and terminal employers are still sparring over wages and benefits more than a year after contract talks began.
Popular interest in the supply chain may have faded, but the pileup of ships waiting offshore keeps growing.
Marine Exchange now counts ships waiting farther out to sea, confirming just how big the backlog really is.
Despite claims to the contrary, the ship backlog is not getting smaller. Vessels are waiting on both sides of the Pacific.
Record number of container ships waiting but they’re harder to see, as new plan spreads queue across Pacific.
Just five days before emergency SoCal container fee is set to begin, offshore traffic jam reaches new heights.
How will public view ships anchored off Los Angeles/Long Beach if one of them is tied to Huntington Beach spill?
Supply chain crisis deepens as more imports snared in historic ship queue off Los Angeles/Long Beach.
Imports into Los Angeles at not slowing down. Can the backlog be cleared before the peak-season swell begins?
Bad timing: Still-rising cargo demand is coinciding with container-shipping constraints in the wake of the Suez Canal crisis.
California’s container-ship traffic jam is slightly less jammed but import pressure remains high. One analyst warns the worst may be yet to come.
How does California congestion rank versus 2015 logjam caused by tensions with dockworkers union? It’s not even close: 2021 wins by a long shot.
Here’s a helicopter view courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard of container-ship armada off Los Angeles and Long Beach (WITH VIDEO).
Thanks to COVID, there are no seasonal highs and lows for international shipping. There is so much demand for goods that the peak season never seems to end — and ports, railroads, truckers and warehouses are reaching the breaking point.
There are more container ships stuck off California than at any time since 2004. What’s behind the pileup? When can it be cleared?
Triple the number of vessels at anchorage increases risk of oil spill.
