The transpacific carrier market is in transition and many in the industry are trying to determine how best to profit by marginal economic growth in US markets. This marginal growth (up 5% from [...]
“The economy is moving in the right direction, without a doubt,” are the opening words from economist Mario O. Moreno in the JOC Insights March issue. It’s good to hear positive [...]
With the end of 2011 came the end of the Clean Truck Fee for shippers importing and exporting through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Or did it? A previous Universal Cargo Management [...]
For those of you who excitedly began singing “Smoke Two Joints” by Sublime at the title of this blog, what you’re about to read is not about those kinds of reefers. In the world of international [...]
Global Port tracker is predicting a 16% year-to-year rise in shipping container imports to the 10 busiest ports in the US. This comes after a 20% and 22% increase in year over year growth seen in [...]
The last post was about how nobody knows anything about what will happen with the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) contract negotiations, with its potential to highly disrupt [...]
"Nobody knows anything." If I were Joe Biden, I'd make up a story about my father or grandpop telling me that when I was a kid as we all discussed blue collar issues around the dinner table. But [...]
For today's blog, I thought we'd do something a little bit different. The artificial intelligence (AI) craze has hit. Despite all those warnings we got from movies in the 80's and 90's, everyone [...]
In a speech, yesterday, to union workers in Pennsylvania, President Biden called for U.S. trade representative Katherine Tai to consider tripling tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum if her [...]
CEO of Hapag-Lloyd Rolf Habben Jansen told CNBC that he thinks international shipping’s peak season is going to come early this year. Lori Ann LaRocco reported: “I would also expect that [...]
Even though the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA) was passed a couple years ago, I keep saying in these introductions that we're just beginning to see the legislation's results. Case in [...]
Earlier this week, on the 26th of February, the Federal Maritime Commission issued its final rules for demurrage and detention billing as set up for it to create by the Ocean Shipping Reform Act [...]
As we continue to see the beginnings of how the recent and ongoing changes to U.S. shipping law affect businesses’ imports and exports as well as carriers’ and other industry stakeholders’ [...]
It's been a while since our last entry in this series, where we go through the Ocean Shipping Reform Act (OSRA) section by section, but we haven't forgotten. We’re still only beginning to see how [...]
Shippers are waiting for someone to do something about the Iran-backed Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea, which have escalated, disrupted international shipping, and catapulted freight [...]
This is a guest post by James Raussen, Eaint Hmue Htut, and Ye Yint Zaw Win. Myanmar's maritime landscape boasts seven major ports, each playing a vital role in the nation's international trade. [...]
This is a guest post by Dylan Jacobson. Container ships are the unsung heroes of global trade, transforming the movement of goods worldwide. Their role is vital, as these colossal vessels serve [...]
Expect trucking to become even more expensive in California. Since about 40% of U.S. containerized imports and approximately 30% of all U.S. exports go through the Golden State's ports, this [...]
This is a guest post by Evelyn Thistlewood. Navigating the complexities of international trade requires a strategic approach to handling unexpected ocean freight issues. In a world where global [...]
Two of the world's most important international shipping route connections are being disrupted simultaneously: the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal. When one important international shipping hub [...]