Anchorages are filling up with ships off multiple ports — not just California’s. Yet the reasons behind the traffic jams are not always the same.
The lack of Lunar New Year shutdowns contributes to the busiest February on record.
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.
“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.
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.
AgTC’s Peter Friedmann said Hapag-Lloyd’s Rolf Habben Jansen failed to mention in a press conference that the container shipping lines are enjoying record profits “while pushing their customers into real financial trouble, some towards bankruptcy.”
It’s not just small and midsized importers that face massive contract rate hikes. Even the biggest shippers will feel the pain.
More than 2,900 containers have gone overboard just since the end of November.
“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.
“If we do nothing, we will still have vessels at anchor come midsummer,” says Port of LA Executive Director Gene Seroka.
The Federal Maritime Commission is stepping up oversight of charges imposed on trucking companies and U.S. exporters by containership companies.
Lending a hand includes everything from improving the environment to funding community initiatives to rescuing a skier mauled by a bear.
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.
Due to shipping snarl and container congestions, delays in retail inventories will be felt from Christmas through Easter.
Maritime operators make the case for being included in the next COVID-19 relief bill.
Demand for its products skyrocketed, but port congestion and freight capacity constraints have prevented their delivery, and now Peloton is spending $100 million to try and fix its supply chain.
The Port of Long Beach may need to start filling out its record book in pencil as new numbers keep replacing those on top.
The discharging of damaged containers continues nearly two months after the storm-battered ONE Apus arrived in Japan.
Port of Long Beach Executive Director Mario Cordero delivers a melodious annual report.
The twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been infected with COVID-19 — with at least 700 positive test results from port employees.
California calls on feds to protect exporters. Shipping groups claim California export cure will worsen congestion — including for importers.
U.S. ports have seen “month-over-month strength across multiple business segments.”
“Not only are we at the height of the Christmas season, but we’re at the height of the Y2K concern as well. Importers and major trading houses are trying to move their goods now to beat any chance of problems with the changeover to the new millennium.”
Nearly 700 dockworkers in California have COVID. Hundreds more are out due to quarantines. Pleas for fast-track vaccinations intensify.
FreightWaves identifies importers who use the Asia-West Coast service.
The 8,113,315 TEUs moved in 2020 stacked up as a record year for the Port of Long Beach.
CIEM’s Pioneer Chassis is gearing up to play a key role in squelching port bottlenecks and filling the chassis shortage gap.
There are more container ships stuck off California than at any time since 2004. What’s behind the pileup? When can it be cleared?
Like clockwork, liner operators sharply reduce their sailings each year during the Chinese New Year holiday. Not in 2021.
Cranes arrive, environmental prizes are awarded and cruise ships are welcomed.
Asia-U.S. container rates had held firm at a record high since September. Now they’re on the move again — and headed even higher.
The World Shipping Council responds to assertions from FMC commissioners of potential Shipping Act violations.
Ocean carrier Maersk says it is “working closely with the Agriculture Transportation Coalition and local trucking associations to address their concerns of equipment availability and detention and demurrage issues.”
Drugs valued at more than $411 million are offloaded at Port Everglades, and the new Long Beach bridge shines bright.
More than $32 million worth of fake Viagra pills, knockoff Air Jordans and other counterfeit products were found in shipments arriving from China, authorities said.
Container imports far exceed sales, raising concerns that 2020’s transport binge could lead to a big headache in 2021.
“Sharing this information is highly beneficial for the supply chain, especially as we cope with both seasonal and unanticipated peaks and valleys in cargo volume,” says Executive Director Mario Cordero.
Allegations of service and rate violations ocean carriers against U.S. exporters are increasing, according to FMC commissioners.
Container flows into U.S. ports have grown faster over the past three months than they have at any other time in the past decade.
Removal of dislodged containers is expected to take more than a month, and none of the 1,816 units that fell into the Pacific have been recovered.
Empty containers returning to Asia jumped 55% to 283,563 units.
“Additional stress on an already-overloaded system tends to further destabilize the system.”
Speed, safety and reliability are taken into account when choosing truck routes.
Trans-Pacific spot index rates haven’t budged from the same peak band for the past 10 weeks. How is this possible in a competitive free market?
Trade group representing drayage drivers calls the move “huge”
The state of customers’ freight remains unknown as inspection of the 14,052-TEU vessel begins.
Sixty-four missing containers carried liquid ethanol, batteries and fireworks.
Port communities in LA, Charleston and Philadelphia already at risk, officials assert.
Surviving cargo that was bound for the U.S. now is headed back to Asia.
Quick action comes on heels of a call for action by key trade group; Commissioner Maffei says it may not be enough
Air cargo carrier names Yulia Celetaria health care director and forms vaccine task force.
Trucking and rail volumes remain elevated while the imports fade. Is this is beginning of the end of the 2020 freight boom?
Gateway remains cautious and braced “for any shocks still to come.”
There are not enough containers in China to handle all the U.S.-bound cargo — and box factories are now sold out into Q2.
The trans-Pacific capacity crunch continues. Container volume that’s either inbound to Los Angeles or stuck at anchorage is surging.
The trans-Pacific market is bursting at the seams as shippers rush in holiday cargoes.
On a collision course: holiday timing, surging consumer demand, thin inventories, and capacity constraints for container liners and ports.
Freight volumes are not the only thing putting pressure on capacity.
Anthony and Zach bring on Maritime expert Henry Byers to discuss the near- and long-term impacts to the domestic freight market resulting from the record-breaking influx of shipments from Asia.
The harbor commission voted to replace the aging Gerald Desmond Bridge in August 2010.
U.S. importers now paying three times more per mile than Europeans for transport of Chinese goods.
Intermodal was supposed to be the growth engine for rail.
The pandemic, trade war and a communication gap have muddled implementation of a $10-per-TEU surcharge.
U.S. importers turn to Chinese sellers in the wake of COVID.
Freight is getting crammed into the U.S. West Coast as fast as carriers can pick it up. How long will it last?
Top July welcome news amid “devastating effects of the coronavirus on the economy.”
Asia-U.S. ocean freight rates are hitting record highs as import demand outpaces vessel supply.
Ports on the Atlantic are losing imports from Europe as well as Asia.
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission found during its Fact Finding 29 investigation that the Port of New York and New Jersey showed supply chain resolve during the coronavirus pandemic.
With airfreight capacity squeezed and rates high between China and the U.S., ocean freight consolidators offer the option of fast, cheaper less-than-container load, trans-Pacific services.
Freightliner’s test fleet of 30 electric trucks has circled the world an equivalent of a dozen times as they make drayage runs and a variety of deliveries in Southern California. Daimler Trucks North America plans regular production of electric trucks in 2022.
Raja Narayanan joins industry disrupter “at this pivotal time where the world is adapting to the new normal.”
OffPeak praised for enabling Southern California distribution centers to operate second shifts.
U.S. shippers importing cargo from Asia are getting some price relief.
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission enters “phase two” of its fact-finding investigation into COVID-19 impacts on container shipping in the Port of New York and New Jersey.
Analysis concludes West Coast ports have lost 19.4% of market share since 2006.
Canceled San Pedro Bay calls more than doubled in the first half of the year compared to 2019.
“Optics” are bad but freight pricing doesn’t appear to meet regulatory bar for intervention.
HTA CEO Weston LaBar says West Coast container ports have suffered a 19.4% loss in market share since 2006.
E-commerce and coronavirus fallout are buoying container services from Asia to the West Coast.
Long Beach mayor taps ILWU officer Bobby Olvera Jr. to serve as commissioner.
By artificially restricting capacity, carrier alliances have engineered rates higher and may book a profit this year.
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has rolled out guidance on how the ocean shipping industry can collaboratively improve the flow of containers among ocean carriers, marine terminals, shippers and drayage truckers in San Pedro Bay during COVID-19 and beyond.
New data reveals third-quarter ocean schedules still largely intact — a positive sign on cargo bookings.
Gene Seroka reports worst May in more than a decade, predicts 15% of import cargo won’t return
COVID effects far from over, but more positive news on the trans-Pacific.
While natural gas trucks have been operating in ports for many years, a new report definitively states that they are a commercially viable option that can handle all the tasks required of drayage trucks.
Pandemic-caused shortages put spotlight on importance of cargo moved through California ports
San Pedro Bay complex braces for more blanked sailings as coronavirus pandemic rages on.
As ships sail full in May, the hope is that fewer 3Q sailings get the ax.
Idelic and Samsara have forged a partnership where Samsara ELD and camera data will be integrated into Idelic’s driver management platform. Plus, GE cutting 25% of aviation workforce, Amazon exec quits over employee firing, and road funding takes a hit.
New data from eeSea reveals that U.S. ports will see capacity plunge by up to 20% this month.
Triple the number of vessels at anchorage increases risk of oil spill.
Final steel floor beam lifted into place two years after assembly of main span got underway.
The 19,200-TEU MSC Anna is retrieving empty containers piling up during the coronavirus crisis to return to Asia.
Ports of Seattle, Tacoma, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Houston, Jacksonville and Charleston all report drops in March.
The number of empty containers returned to Asia from the California port dropped 23% in March.
Coronavirus and tariffs blamed for lowest total in more than a decade.
