Private marine terminals in Tacoma are putting more pressure on importers to pick up containers that are left for weeks and choking the movement of cargo.
A trucking trade group is urging California Gov. Gavin Newsom to enforce a state law to prevent terminal operators and ocean carriers from charging excessive per-diem and demurrage fees and using port truckers as “a convenient ATM to bolster their profits.”
California congestion hits charter rates as ship operators waste millions waiting to get to terminals.
A whopping 40,000 of those containers have been at the Port of LA for nine-plus days, which is considered lingering.
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are turning into makeshift warehouses. Officials hope new fines on lingering cargo will end the practice.
TCA and Blume Global will present a free webinar on the current congestion at the ports and how digitization can help ease the backlog.
Amid global shipping congestion, GEODIS urges importers not to overlook their customs responsibilities.
The Port of Los Angeles is hoping to scare the freight community into more efficient behavior with big fines for the slow retrieval of containers.
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach haven’t informed federal regulators yet about their plans to hit ocean carriers with big fees for excessive storage of containers.
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are turning to heavy-handed tactics to address a container logjam that is gumming up supply chains.
Shippers, carriers and logistics companies aren’t getting many answers yet about hefty surcharges for lingering containers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Companies stymied by the chip shortage have figured out a way to keep operating while cutting their losses.
The daily surcharge fines begin Monday, but there has been no immediate surge of container activity.
The Port of Long Beach is trying to innovate its way out of container gridlock. The latest move is regular shuttle trains to Utah to reduce less efficient truck moves.
Company shoots out the lights in the third quarter with soaring profits and EPS.
Many media outlets are reporting that a Long Beach city order will allow bigger container stacks at the port. Not true. It’s for container yards outside the harbor district.
The number of idling vessels has roughly doubled in the past decade, in part due to port congestion, a recent study finds. Idling vessels are at higher risk of biofouling, especially in warm waters.
Military truck drivers and $1,000-per-chassis tax credit incentives are part of a slate of recommendations for the commerce secretary to consider to help unclog U.S. ports.
FMCSA’s Meera Joshi is taking on multiple trucking issues.
Overlapping crises have pushed the race for global visibility into a critical stage.
Port volumes across the Gulf Coast were boosted in September by exports of petroleum and steel and imports of refrigerated cargo.
Some are questioning President Biden’s pick to lead the Maritime Administration for a lack of commercial shipping experience.
The Biden administration is pushing industry to take immediate and long-term steps to get ports and intermodal transport working smoothly.
A top Biden administration official believes securing data among supply chain competitors will be the key to rolling out a nationwide 24/7 strategy.
The Association of American Railroads applauds the 24/7 approach to container operations, which the association says is similar to the way freight railroads function.
For the time being, two ocean services will not call Georgia’s busy Port of Savannah.
Big-box retailers, FedEx and UPS have detailed plans to speed up container processing at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Ahead of talks with President Biden, the ILWU is calling out foreign carriers’ focus on profits as a hurdle to solving supply chain disruptions.
Pullback in trans-Pacific shipping rates: beginning of the end or brief reprieve with end still not in sight?
New forecasts from the National Retail Federation call for retail imports to stay high through at least February.
Biden’s port czar outlines a 90-day plan to expand operating hours along the U.S. supply chain.
Check Call looks at shared truckload and the future of cost savings for shippers, Gene Seroka and the LA port congestion, and FMSCA’s new regulation for drivers.
Yes, despite the headaches, the ocean carriers are making boatloads of money.
If you thought President Joe Biden would quickly reverse Trump’s controversial trade policy toward China, guess again. U.S. importers aren’t happy.
FreightWaves’ Anthony Smith talks about the ways shippers are building reliant supply chains with Nate Shutes, VP of global fulfillment and logistics at Blu Dot, during FreightWaves’ OceanWaves Summit.
Ports and inland transportation connections are choking on ocean imports. A top economist says don’t blame ocean carriers.
Los Angeles is at the front line of the port congestion crisis. Its executive director outlines his strategy to clear anchorages.
“If I’m optimistic, you’re looking six months into the future” before congestion and capacity challenges start to subside, says Vespucci Maritime CEO Lars Jensen.
As more Americans begin their holiday shopping earlier than ever, port backups and worker shortages could leave shoppers disappointed and brands with excess inventory in January.
The chaos in the supply chain has ripple effects down to the last mile. AxleHire Founder Daniel Sokolovsky is responsible for ensuring his company can meet those last-mile delivery demands.
There are two ways to transport goods overseas: ocean or air. Port congestion and shipping delays are forcing companies to shift to faster air transport, which releases more emissions, costs more per unit and has its own capacity constraints.
With no end in sight for global supply chain crisis, importers warned to brace for high costs throughout next year.
High-tech manufacturer Enovix is not outsourcing production to Asia, unlike many predecessors. Its assembly line arrived in California on a giant plane.
Trans-Pacific traffic snarl is bicoastal: More container ships waiting off Shanghai and Ningbo than Southern California.
FMCSA Deputy Administrator Meera Joshi was told during the hearing on her nomination to become administrator that truck crash trends underscore the need for agency action.
Southern California ports would need two weeks with zero vessel arrivals to clear logjam — but the ships keep coming.
Supply chain crisis deepens as more imports snared in historic ship queue off Los Angeles/Long Beach.
Ocean carrier detention and demurrage practices will be the target of an upcoming proposed rule from the Federal Maritime Commission.
The Department of Transportation seeks “practical solutions” from the freight industry to alleviate container shortages and supply chain chokepoints.
U.S. agribusiness exporters claim they are poised to lose 22% of sales due to massive increases in container shipping rates.
The maritime meeting among trade partners comes as container shipping remains hot.
The White House is trying to unleash the domestic economy by removing supply chain shackles.
The stress levels of logistics managers and supply chain managers are at all high-time highs — and for good reason.
It costs $1.2 million to charter a cargo jet from Vietnam as air exports slow because of the government’s response to a wave of COVID infections.
Queue of container ships off U.S. ports keeps building, with months’ worth of peak-season cargo still to unload.
The Port of Ningbo is in a partial lockdown, putting immense pressure on an ocean transportation system squeezed to the maximum. It’s a replay of the Yantian port slowdown earlier this summer.
GCCA’s Lowell Randel explains how industry and government can fix driver shortages, port congestion and cyber threats.
Maersk results offer more evidence that capacity constraints and U.S. — not worldwide — demand drive rates.
An American company has accused foreign ocean carriers of abusing the container market to pad their profits.
Almost no container ships were stuck at anchor when 2020 peak season began. This peak season, terminals are pre-clogged.
Ocean Network Express says the “economic environment is now changing” and it cannot forecast what the rest of 2021 holds, but Hapag-Lloyd can. It expects to triple 2020’s EBITDA.
We have a new winner in the ocean shipping game of “How High Can Rates Go?” — about 15 times higher than before the COVID crisis.
U.S. shippers this holiday season will need more than Rudolph’s red nose to guide them through the whiteout of congestion.
Matson is adding a seasonal express service to help deal with the upcoming peak shipping season from China. But will it help with freight transportation delays?
STB Chairman Marty Oberman has sent letters to all the Class I railroads asking them how the railroads are applying storage fees at key container terminals while the supply chain is congested.
Vietnam is the newest epicenter for supply chain chaos. Manufacturing and port activity have been cut by new COVID precautions.
It’s not what the company typically does but “this market has created a lot of unique situations,” says SEKO exec.
Supply chain bottlenecks are raising red flags for inflation down the road.
The seven-day suspension of service, starting on Sunday, is aimed at helping ocean carriers, UP and other stakeholders to catch up and relieve the congestion at West Coast ports and busy inland terminals, especially Chicago.
With 39 ships at anchor, the Port of Vancouver is continuing to feel the strain as CP and CN resume service in a fire-afflicted region of British Columbia.
IRIS is GEODIS’ eye-in-the-sky ocean and air shipments visibility platform for booking and managing exports in real time.
The biggest container shipping line in the world says container traffic at the massive Port of Yantian in China is moving much better after COVID restrictions were recently lifted. But exporters have a long way to go before ocean shipments go smoothly again.
The Port of Yantian is operating at 100% on the vessel side again after a month of delays, but that doesn’t mean the container buildup will get resolved soon.
Trips that once took three to four weeks are often taking three to four months, and shipments will undoubtedly miss their season for some retailers.
DOT’s response to the Interstate 40 bridge outage needs more urgency, according to U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn.
Shippers call on lawmakers to expand government oversight of contracts between ocean carriers and their customers.
A “truly outstanding quarter” lifts net profit from $27 million in 2020 to $1.45 billion this year.
Importers are scrambling as demand sails past ocean transport supply. The numbers paint an ominous picture for cargo shippers.
On this episode of Point of Sale, Andrew Cox looks at the tidal wave of impacts following the Suez Canal blockage and what it could mean for already stressed U.S. ports.
Biden taps Daniel Maffei to head the FMC amid the ongoing port congestion crisis.
You think you can just book your cargo on a plane to avoid the ocean shipping congestion at the Suez Canal? Guess again. Freighters were flying full even before the Ever Given got stuck, so finding space will be very difficult.
The Panama Canal Authority’s administrator discusses why he’s not worried about a container ship blocking the canal.
Add Nike (NYSE: NKE) to the growing list of retailers being severely hampered by port congestion and supply chain bottlenecks. The congestion at West Coast ports in particular strained Nike’s supply chain and negatively impacted revenue, which declined 11% yoy in the quarter ending Feb. 28.
The world’s largest shipping line says it has changed its ways and is no longer playing the spot market, instead going steady with long-term partners.
“2020 has been exceptional, with stellar performance in the industry,” says Hapag-Lloyd CFO Mark Frese.
There’s no time for deliberation these days if you want to get high-value cargo shipped by air. It’s a strong seller’s market in the air cargo world. If you see it, book it and don’t worry about the price.
Fireworks could be stuck at sea by the time the Fourth of July rolls around. Blame massive port congestion and overloaded freight networks. The fireworks industry is asking the Biden administration to provide a fix, but what can it do?
There is a direct correlation between stimulus checks and the surge in e-commerce spending, according to SEKO US.
“Today we are in the seventh month of a historic import surge driven by unprecedented demand by American consumers,” says Gene Seroka.
Retailers are stuck between playing the waiting game and risking delays that wreck quarterly results or ponying up and taking to the skies. The goods will arrive quickly, but at what cost?
Carriers should begin planning now to influence policy change that could result from Biden’s supply chain executive order, industry observers say.
On this episode of Midday Market Update, Kevin Hill and Michael Vincent look at downstream effects from California’s port crisis.
“Ocean Insights has dominated the container-tracking space, and we look forward to providing the industry not only the best ocean capabilities but also the most comprehensive end-to-end visibility platform,” says project44 CEO Jett McCandless.
Northwest Seaport Alliance reports January exports dropped 13.4% year-over-year.
Federal Maritime Commissioner Carl Bentzel discusses the agency’s options in regulating rates and service amid the booming U.S. container supply chain.
Amazon may get the headlines for promising fast deliveries, but if it can’t get the product from overseas, the efficiency of trucks and delivery vans won’t make a difference.
Philip Damas, managing director at Drewry Shipping Consultants, and Andy Gillespie, director of global logistics at Ansell Healthcare Products, chat about the current port congestion and how the situation can be corrected.
Shipping experts chat about the COVID-19 supply chain and how consumer e-commerce demand has impacted seasonality and congestion in freight.
National Retail Federation’s Jon Gold and CNBC’s Lori Ann LaRocco discuss the impact of empty containers and port congestion and how retailers can protect themselves from future supply chain vulnerabilities.
“We have really a perfect storm of demand that’s surging like there’s no tomorrow, everybody needing to get the boxes back, COVID-related restrictions,” says Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen.
