Shippers have more fees – or at least faster racking-up fees – to worry about at the Port of New York and New Jersey. Michael Angell reports in the Journal of Commerce (JOC): "The largest marine [...]

Afer two years of port congestion and supply chain disruption and with new powers from the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (“OSRA 2022”), the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is considering [...]

In the last blog, we looked at how – with the slowing economy – retailers and shippers are decreasing their imports and expected to keep doing so in 2023. As discussed, that should mean [...]

It's kind of a good news, bad news situation. Or more accurately, bad news, good news situation. Because of the slowing economy (bad news), freight rates should see decline (good news) in the [...]

The big news of the day is China firing missiles around Taiwan in response to U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visiting the island nation over which China claims sovereignty. The story is a [...]

Strike, strike, strike! The U.S. supply chain is in a triple strike threat from truckers, dockworkers, and rail workers. Normally, it's three strikes and you're out, but this is no game. Any one [...]

This is a guest post by Adrian Jacobs. It is the dream of every business involved in logistics to have a robust and failure-proof supply chain. Unfortunately, this is simply impossible. What you [...]

The Port of Oakland is back to full operation after truckers, with an assist from ILWU members, screeched the port to a halt last week over Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5). The port says it will take [...]

The Port of Oakland can no longer claim operations have not been affected by truckers striking over the California's Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5), which ends the independent owner and operator model of [...]

This is a guest post by Bryan Christiansen. Consider you are an importer, sourcing pharmaceutical intermediary chemicals for a leading manufacturing company in the U.S. You are importing the [...]

Yesterday (Wednesday, July 14th), truckers began protesting Assembly Bill 5, aka AB 5 or the gig worker bill, at and around the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland. Not merely did [...]

Last week, we blogged about California's Assembly Bill 5, also known as AB 5 and the gig worker bill. After the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear the California Trucking Association's case [...]

For years, we've talked about a trucker shortage that has been a problem for the international shipping industry and U.S. supply chains. Now, a law is going into effect in California that [...]

As of Friday (July 1st), the master contract between the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) for all the dockworkers at West Coast ports is [...]

This is a guest post by John Meyers. As similar as they may sound, inventory management and warehouse management are not the same. They both incorporate operations and management of products [...]