Norfolk Southern and CMA CGM are offering a new door-to-door intermodal service incorporating rail’s reach with truckload simplicity.
Unsettled trade policy and cautious importers were reflected in falling January container volumes at the Port of Los Angeles.
The Port of Los Angeles saw its third-best year for container volume despite months of challenging trade headwinds and economic uncertainty.
The Port of Long Beach, half of the busiest U.S. container gateway, is laying plans to double throughput to 20 million containers by 2050.
Despite trade uncertainty, Port of Los Angeles volume nears 10 million TEUs in 2025, among the top three years in its history.
More than a hundred firefighters and emergency personnel were battling an electrical fire aboard a ONE container ship that shut four terminals at the Port of Los Angeles.
Steady October volume has put the Port of Los Angeles within reach of 10 million TEUs for a record third consecutive year.
Despite progress, the port of Los Angeles-Long Beach said hurdles remain to achieving their goal of zero-emissions drayage by 2035.
The Port of Los Angeles, despite lower September imports, posted an all-time record quarter for container volume.
The Port of Los Angeles wants to build an all-new container terminal to accommodate the biggest container ships on the planet.
Customs and Border Protection will continue to fund cargo inspections and other essential services during a government shutdown.
August was a strong month for the Port of Los Angeles, but that could be the end of the good news in 2025 for the busiest U.S import gateway.
Truck and rail dwell and capacity remained stable at the ports of LA-Long Beach despite a record surge in container volumes.
Maritime officials and shippers say a national freight strategy will be sidelined without a significant focus on waterborne commerce.
July was a record month for the Port of Los Angeles, as monthly container volumes for the first time topped 1 million TEUs.
The Port of Los Angeles is poised to reap the benefits of Union Pacific’s acquisition of Norfolk Southern, its top executive says.
Small- and medium-sized businesses are feeling the tremors of unpredictable U.S. trade policy and dozens of recent tariff changes.
The Port of Los Angeles saw container volume surge 8% to a monthly record in June.
Ocean container indicators turn negative as importers wait for developments on tariffs and trade policy.
The Port of Los Angeles expects to boost exports from a rail-served logistics park in California’s Central Valley.
Tariffs helped snap 10 straight months of growth at the Port of Los Angeles, but a Yale economist says that the worst could be yet to come.
May volumes decline by 5% but container traffic is up year-to-date.
Intermodal volumes so far seem to be dodging the “air pocket” expected in the wake of steep tariffs on goods from China.
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are looking for a new harbor rail operator for the first time since 1998.
Los Angeles’ port chief doesn’t foresee a “huge surge” of import traffic at the busiest U.S. container hub during the tariff pause.
Container lines welcomed a pause in the tariff war that has crippled trade between the United States and China.
West Coast politicians and port executives warned that President Trump’s tariffs will have far-reaching consequences for the U.S. economy.
The Port of Los Angeles saw imports modestly climb in March as frontloading and tariffs cloud the gateway’s H2 outlook.
The Trump administration is reshaping global trade, and the effects are being felt in the ocean and air freight sectors.
Container traffic at the busiest U.S. import gateway is expected to drop by 10% in the second half of the year.
The leading U.S. container gateway saw overall volume climb in February.
Frontloading of consumer goods through the Port of Long Beach ran volume to a record in January.
Despite an uncertain outlook for trade, the Port of Los Angeles saw its busiest January for container shipments.
A suspect has been arrested after Los Angeles port and city police broke up a crime ring that had stolen $600,000 worth of container chassis.
The Port of Los Angeles has appointed Jeffrey Strafford as chief financial officer at the busiest U.S. container port.
Continuing consumer demand and frontloading by importers in November helped the Port of Los Angeles to double-digit gains in container volumes.
Port of LA-Long Beach short line Pacific Harbor Line has won partial federal funding toward the purchase of zero-emission locomotives.
High tariffs on Chinese imports, promised by President-elect Trump, will likely slow U.S. trade in 2025 as uncertainty hinders investment in reshoring of manufacturing, a trade analyst predicts.
The Port of Los Angeles posted record container volume in October on resilient consumer spending and a strong economy.
Los Angeles, New York and Virginia ports alone net over $1 billion from EPA to cut pollution.
An early peak shipping season, strong economy and resilient consumer spending boosted container volume to a record quarter at the Port of Los Angeles.
Importers with the National Retail Federation fear a second Trump administration could hurt business with higher tariffs on consumer goods.
An early peak shipping season, strong economy and resilient consumer spending boosted container volume to a record quarter at the Port of Los Angeles.
The Port of Long Beach has $2.2 billion earmarked for accelerating zero-emission initiatives over the next decade.
A truck carrying lithium-ion batteries overturned and caught fire Thursday near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
The Port of Los Angeles handled 960,597 twenty-foot equivalent units in August, a 16% increase over the previous year and the busiest month ever outside the pandemic. Eight months into 2024, the leading U.S. container gateway is 17% ahead of its 2023 pace, already moving nearly 1 million more containers than a year ago. “The […]
The International Longshoremen’s Association has adopted a resolute stance in negotiations with East Coast port employers from Maine to Houston. There’s speculation that sympathy work stoppages could spread to West Coast container gateways.
The Port of Los Angeles edged out Laredo, Texas, as the No. 1 U.S. trade gateway in July, while Mexico was the top U.S. trade partner for the month.
In the latest move to strengthen the largest U.S. container gateway, a key Port of Los Angeles terminal will receive $52 million to upgrade its on-dock rail capacity.
The Port of Los Angeles has named Erica M. Calhoun deputy executive director overseeing the city of Los Angeles Harbor Department’s Administrative Bureau.
As eastbound import traffic continues to grow, Union Pacific announced surcharges for its premium EMP and UMAX services out of the Southern California gateway.
Vessel delays and labor concerns had importers rushing to get holiday merchandise into the Port of Los Angeles before the traditional peak season in the fall.
A battery-charging network strategy aimed at phasing out diesel-burning trucks kicks off with 12,000 miles of interstate freight corridors.
Drayage carriers at the Port of Long Beach may be adding more internal combustion engine vehicles than zero-emission vehicles to prepare for California’s Advanced Clean Fleets rule. The Port of LA’s use of ZEVs is also low.
Following 15 months of challenges, U.S. ports are once again experiencing substantial growth in inbound containers.
Port director Gene Seroka cited replenishing inventory and consumer spending as drivers of growth.
Lower inventories in the U.S. are pulling freight into the country.
Shippers are reverting to pre-pandemic shipping patterns, which may exacerbate the next freight market shift.
Now that port labor unrest is over, West Coast container terminals are starting to claw back some of their lost volumes.
“The table is set to scale up as demand increases,” said Port of LA Executive Director Gene Seroka.
“Patience is wearing thin. Neither side imagined it would take this long,” says the head of the Port of LA on dockworker contract talks.
This year’s peak season could see West Coast labor disruptions coincide with Panama Canal water levels impeding cargo flows to the East Coast.
Dockworkers who keep West Coast cargo flowing are highly paid. Their bid for even higher pay is starting to affect the cargo flow.
The dockworkers’ union and terminal employers are still sparring over wages and benefits more than a year after contract talks began.
Trans-Pacific spot rates have pared earlier gains and remain at loss-making levels. Demand has yet to rebound.
America’s imports are not signaling a recession, at least not yet. Inbound volumes are rising from the bottom.
“Simply put, there’s no bigger priority right now than this contract agreement,” says Gene Seroka of the Port of Los Angeles.
Although import volumes show signs of a nascent recovery, the inventory overhang remains daunting.
After labor unrest closed Los Angeles and Long Beach on Friday, ports on the East and Gulf coasts look even more attractive.
U.S. importers have forsaken their traditional gateway in Southern California. Many may be gone for good.
“We knew the port terminals, we understood their operations, but mostly we understood their systems and data. We thought we could be the bridge that wasn’t created before that could speak both parties’ languages and get containers in and out,” said BlueCargo co-founder and CEO Alexandra Griffon.
Los Angeles continues to face a double whammy of sinking demand and fears over the port labor contract that expired in July.
The Georgia Ports Authority said a 16% drop in imports year over year “was fueled in part by reduced orders in retail and manufacturing.”
What can be done to alleviate emissions and decarbonize transportation in the ports?
American imports remain a tale of two coasts, with continued strength in container volumes headed to Atlantic ports.
Remaining queues of waiting ships are dwindling, another sign that supply chain pressure is winding down.
Container shipping lines are gradually getting their services back on schedule, but they still have a long way to go.
Containerized imports to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have now fallen well below pre-COVID levels.
Shippers and carriers are increasing the pressure on ports and other supply chain participants to roll out “green corridors” using digital technology.
Southern California’s container-ship logjam ends as congestion eases at East and Gulf Coast ports.
The head of Los Angeles’ port is on a worldwide sales blitz, trying to convince shippers and carriers to come back.
Imports remain 7% higher than pre-pandemic levels, with volumes steadying last month after September’s plunge.
Einride will be building electric vehicle charging stations to support Maersk’s deployment of its E-truck, starting with a facility near the Port of Los Angeles.
Southern California ports are being hit by double-digit import drops as the COVID-19 cargo boom winds down.
Declining imports have led to fewer container ships waiting off ports, injecting more capacity into the market, a negative for spot rates.
East and Gulf coast ports handled more volume than ever before in August, pulling far ahead of West Coast rivals.
Executive Director Mario Cordero says the Port of Long Beach is “making great strides in reducing the number of ships queuing to enter the San Pedro Bay ports complex and quickly moving imports and empty containers out of the terminals.”
U.S. containerized imports are still near record highs, but not in Los Angeles, where they’ve fallen sharply.
The Georgia Ports Authority says the Navis system “eliminates data silos, improves velocity across our terminals and enables us to more easily integrate with our customers to provide the data and insights they need.”
California’s container-ship traffic jam is almost gone, replaced by stubbornly high backlogs off the East and Gulf coasts.
Importers have been shifting to the East Coast since 2021, but the full realization of this has peaked over the summer. The shifting import pattern has strong downstream effects for surface transportation providers.
The Mojave Inland Port could reduce congestion at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Spot rates on most global shipping routes continue to fall. The trans-Atlantic market is the exception: It’s holding firm near its high.
U.S. imports accelerated in July, with inbound cargo from China reaching a year-to-date high, according to Descartes.
With East Coast ship queues high, port executive Gene Seroka says: “For cargo owners looking to rechart their course, come to Los Angeles.”
The drop in ships waiting off Southern California is deceiving. The number of ships off all three coasts is back to all-time highs.
Peak season imports are expected to remain strong but rail delays require ‘immediate’ attention, says Port of LA’s Gene Seroka.
Southern California ports can’t evacuate import containers fast enough. The backlog has yet again reached critical levels.
There were 125 container ships waiting offshore on Friday, including 36 off Savannah, 24 off Southern California and 20 each off Houston and New York.
The number of import containers sitting at LA/LB terminals for nine days or more has more than doubled since February.
