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After graduating from Cal Poly Pomona, Tim has worked in several different industries, including insurance, telecommunications, and logistics. Providing solutions to his clients is what he loves [...]

Is it possible the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) would actually agree to a contract extension before their current contract expires? Long before their contract expires in [...]

There are a number of big changes happening in the international shipping industry. Just to name a few, ships have been getting much, much bigger; the Panama Canal is expanding; and carriers, the [...]

It’s hard to believe we are only hours away from 2016. 2015 seems to have come to an end incredibly quickly, but a lot happened in the international shipping industry this year. So much has [...]

International shipping is a complicated business. That’s why freight forwarders exist; they help shippers with all the international shipping details so shippers can focus on the details of [...]

Last week, on August 17th, a BNSF Railway intermodal storage policy change went into effect that is making shippers unhappy. The displeasure with the new policy couldn’t be missed in a [...]

Shippers are tired of paying the price for port congestion, and rightly so. Demurrage, detention, and per diem fees have unfairly been charged to shippers on top of the lost money and overseas [...]

After the news broke that both the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) voted to ratify the new West Coast longshore contract, the Los [...]

After just over a year, the contract negotiation process between the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) has come to an end. The ILWU [...]

Iran Seizes Maersk Container Ship at Gunpoint Iran detained a Maersk container ship at gunpoint this week, complicating already delicate international relations. Helene Cooper and Danny [...]

The news of a tentative contract agreement being reached by the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) was music to shippers’ ears. [...]

Get ready. It looks like the West Coast ports are about to shut down. The Los Angeles Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders Association (LACBFFA) forwarded the following words of warning from [...]

The Clash, with their classic “I Fought the Law” song, gives a warning of the common outcome of going against the law. However, the temptation of financial profit that can be made [...]

The breakthrough that shippers, retailers, and the economy has been waiting for in the contract negotiations between the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific [...]

There’s a lot happening in the world of international shipping which affects shippers. In today’s blog we bring together the three top stories affecting shippers right now. Mayor [...]

After seven long months of negotiations, the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) are still not even close to a new contract agreement. So [...]

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) have been in contract negotiations for months. For the first several months, negotiations seemed [...]

UPDATE: Carriers are implementing Port Congestion Surcharges. Retailers fear shelves being as empty during the Christmas and holiday season as the gates pictured right after International [...]

“The International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) has initiated orchestrated slowdowns at the Pacific Northwest ports of Seattle and Tacoma, severely impacting many of the largest [...]