Logistics failures costing business: US exporters
US commodity exporters say declines in containerized shipments — down 8.1 percent last year — don’t [...]
Trans-Pacific carriers aim to curb free time in annual contracts
Following a year in which extended possession of containers by many US...Powered by WPeMatico
Outlook 2021: Online quoting activity builds, but real-time rates elusive
This story appears in the print edition of the Jan. 4, 2021, Journal of Commerce [...]
Soaring visibility demand a sign of heightened B2B delivery expectations
Predictive ocean freight visibility has become a critical element of shippers’ ability to meet demands [...]
FMC’s Bentzel urges carriers to use PNW as alternative to congested LA–LB
With gridlock at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex “the worst that we’ve ever seen” [...]
PIL creditors overwhelmingly approve carrier’s restructuring
Singapore’s Pacific International Lines is set to undergo court-sanctioned restructuring after the carrier’s creditors Monday [...]
California asks FMC for immediate action on export delays
The state of California is urging US regulators to take immediate action on port congestion [...]
Carriers blank Asia-Europe sailings, citing port congestion
Citing port congestion, two of the three major east-west ocean carrier alliances are blanking...Powered by [...]
Shocks to container system rarely lead to improvements
Container shipping plays out in predictable cycles, and another one is under way right now.The [...]
US port delays force ‘structural’ blank sailings on Asian services
With Hapag-Lloyd -- and by extension its partners in THE Alliance -- advising customers of [...]