Folding five empty shipping containers into the space of one could curb smuggling, save shippers money and reduce emissions.
Charter rates hold steady at their peak as the seemingly neverending container shipping boom continues.
Congestion could go from bad to worse as liners steer a record number of container ships toward East Coast ports.
COVID lockdowns haven’t closed Chinese ports yet. If they do, U.S. importers face “shockwave” of higher rates and delays.
Congress is paying more attention than ever to freight supply chains. Here are 10 pending bills that attempt to address disruption and lower costs for carriers and their customers.
Hyper rail systems could transport containers to and from ports quickly, according to WickedHyper’s CEO.
Mary O’Connell and David Spencer, director of business intelligence at Arrive Logistics, sit down to talk about the freight market in February and the outlook for 2022.
“Efforts to successfully move aging cargo out of shipping terminals” improve the picture at California’s San Pedro Bay ports.
“Everything we have sails. Every box we have we try to move,” says Hapag-Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen.
West Coast terminal operators could be taking advantage of supply chain disruptions by overcharging shippers for using night gates.
Dysfunction at the nation’s largest port helps explain why the U.S. is losing the trade war to China.
An internal process audit can be easier than you think, ships waiting for berths in San Pedro Bay have finally decreased, and Canada can’t quit with border issues.
The number of ships waiting off Los Angeles/Long Beach fell 23% over the past week.
Traxens CEO David Marchand says that “known port congestion is only the tip of the iceberg.”
While much of the focus in 2021 was on the supply chain, the toll it took on e-commerce sellers was dramatic.
In this exclusive interview with American Shipper, the port envoy to the White House Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force discusses the state of the ports, the challengers at hand and the outlook for the future.
Despite the victory of saving Christmas, the congestion problems at the nation’s largest ports have not improved.
A new export container subsidy at the Port of Oakland received a tepid response from lawmakers pushing for a major overhaul of shipping regulations.
SoCal imports suffering multimonth slide, not because of falling demand, but because of supply chain bottlenecks.
FedEx Logistics is the latest company to find an alternative to big-port congestion by taking freight business to the Port of Hueneme in California.
