New Suez Toll Hike Significant for U.S. Importers
There are many world events affecting current and upcoming ocean freight rates. Sanctions on Russia with its aggression on Ukraine obviously affects cargo movement to and from that region, and [...]
There are many world events affecting current and upcoming ocean freight rates. Sanctions on Russia with its aggression on Ukraine obviously affects cargo movement to and from that region, and [...]
We may have seen a full shift in U.S. import patterns for 2022, particularly with an increase in cargo volumes through East Coast ports. Bill Mongelluzzo reports in the Journal of [...]
This is a guest post by Alan Porter. When trying to understand how the modern world economy works, you cannot help but appreciate the role of shipping containers. The only way in which one [...]
The Biden Administration's port envoy is stepping down reports Peter Tirschwell in the Journal of Commerce (JOC): John Porcari, the White House’s port envoy, will step down from the role in [...]
You know all that bragging the Biden Administration has done over the last four months about getting the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to go 24/7 to fight congestion? Yeah, the ports are [...]
One of the top stories in the Journal of Commerce (JOC) yesterday (January 31st, 2022) was CMA CGM acquiring "a majority stake in European last-mile logistics specialist Colis Privé, a parcel [...]
Keith Wallis reported in a Journal of Commerce article this week that South Korea's Fair Trade Commission fined ocean freight carriers over $80 million for collaborating in setting freight [...]
Several news stories in recent days report COVID cases discovered in China and worry about port shutdowns and more disruption rippling through global supply chains. There's plenty of reason for [...]
Three-month-plus transit times for sailings goods across the Pacific? After more than a year of severe congestion at U.S. ports, especially at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and along [...]
This is a guest post by Gregory Steele. When considering logistics, we usually tend to think of the bright future. The development of AI and the full automation of supply chains seem like [...]
There are two news stories worthy of shippers' attention today. The first pertains to air freight while the second has to do with ocean freight. On the air side, we have a story about suspended [...]
In July, I went out on a limb as seemingly the only one in the shipping industry to predict ocean freight rates could fall by the end of the year. I turned out to be right. YAY! Headlines like [...]
Parenting 101 from the Ports of Los Angeles & Long Beach On Tuesday, in yet another blog post about the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach postponing the outrageous container dwelling fees [...]
The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach announced another postponement in the assessment of the enormous fees they originally announced were going into effect on November 1st. When announced, the [...]
This is a guest post by Jason Godfrey. When reading up about shipping, we tend to focus on the more industrial aspects of it. And, while it is essential to learn about logistics advancements and [...]
If you're interested in prolonging the world's supply chain woes, follow China's example. With its Covid Zero policies, China won't allow crew changes for foreign crew on ships and imposes [...]
The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach seem happy to keep dangling the threat of incredibly high container dwell fees to induce movement of import shipping containers out of the ports' [...]
At the beginning of the month, we blogged about $100-per-day fines the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach were to impose on carriers for lingering containers. The carriers immediately said [...]
The peak season is often a time of particular danger for shippers' cargo from cargo theft. For the last 18 months, it has felt like a continuous peak season, with near-record to record high [...]
With Universal Cargo launching a new air freight division, I caught up with CEO Devin Burke and Charles Freeman, Business Development, who's heading up the division to find out more. They [...]