2021 was a banner year for The Port of Virginia, SC Ports and Alabama Port Authority.
Popular interest in the supply chain may have faded, but the pileup of ships waiting offshore keeps growing.
Carriers and shippers are turning to East Coast ports as Los Angeles/Long Beach remains mired in congestion.
SC Ports and the Virginia Port Authority are benefiting from customers seeking less congested ports, they said.
Upward of 2,000 empty containers are being sent to LA, potentially creating more burden on the congested port.
Barbara Melvin will succeed Jim Newsome at the helm of South Carolina Ports next summer and will become the first woman to lead a top-10 U.S. container port.
For the time being, two ocean services will not call Georgia’s busy Port of Savannah.
“By investing more than $2 billion in port infrastructure in recent years, we have the capacity to handle the influx of imports we are seeing today,” says SCPA CEO Jim Newsome.
A National Labor Relations Board judge ruled the International Longshoremen’s Association cannot force the use of union labor at the Port of Charleston’s new Leatherman Terminal.
Container volumes were “strong” in August amid continued retail import volume growth at the Port of Charleston, the South Carolina Ports Authority said.
