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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As the expiration of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) quickly approaches, shippers are getting more and more anxious about the potential of contentious negotiations throwing [...]

Contract negotiations between the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) and their employers at the West Coast ports, the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), have been suspended until [...]

Last week, there was an interesting exchange between President Biden and a reporter, during which the president said his administration is currently discussing dropping the tariffs that President [...]

Countdown ‘Til ILWU Slowdowns Contract Negotiations The countdown is at nine days. This isn’t an exciting countdown like counting down the days ’til Christmas or the seconds [...]

There is still no end in sight to the horrific Shanghai lockdown, where the Chinese government has actually barricaded people inside their homes, worsening the struggle for citizens to get food [...]

One of the biggest, most technologically advanced cities in the history of the world has empty streets. Its people are locked in their homes. Screams fill the air as citizens, running out of [...]

China’s insane Covid Zero policies strike again. The country has shut down an entire province due to a rise of Covid-19 cases. This has millions of people locked in their homes, major [...]

It's generally accepted that World War II ended the Great Depression. Could the Russia conflict end America's supply chain crisis? Or at least mitigate it? Hmmm... Greg Miller wrote an American [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Russia is prepared to invade Ukraine. They've built up troops on the border. They're running massive military drills. And most think it is not a question of if they'll attack but when they'll [...]

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 [...]

This will be the last blog I post in 2021, so I can spend the holidays with family. What better time to do a look back at the year's top international shipping news stories? This year, stories [...]

It's said that the United States Congress can't work together. It's said that Democrats and Republicans can't agree on anything – that all they do is fight with each other. If that's the rule, [...]

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 [...]