LA ports prepare to manage ship traffic as labour disrupts cargoUS West Coast ports are enduring the longest labor strife since 2015 as talks between port employers and dockworkers approach a full year w...
09 Jun, 2023, 09.14 AM IST
No. 2 US port sees consumer demand easing from Covid-era surgeThe most recent data show US consumer spending and retail sales rising at a sluggish pace, a sign that the hottest inflation in almost four...
21 Sep, 2022, 04.57 PM IST
Imports to largest US port drop, hinting at weaker demandInbound loaded containers to the Port of Los Angeles fell 17% -- the largest decline since May 2020 -- to about 404,000 units in August fro...
17 Sep, 2022, 09.42 AM IST
Asia’s shortage of empty containers may worsen on Rotterdam jamHigh congestion levels at Rotterdam prompted shipping line AP Moller-Maersk A/S to inform customers last week it would be relocating unclai...
21 Jun, 2022, 09.25 AM IST
Major shipping firm sees signs of supply chain bottlenecks easingAs for China’s strict lockdowns in Shanghai and other cities to battle Covid-19 outbreaks, he sees the global impact as a “short-term pheno...
28 Apr, 2022, 03.51 PM IST
East Coast container ship queue overshadows West Coast logjamMany of America’s biggest seaports have been overwhelmed by a combination of strong demand for foreign-made products, shortages of truckers...
07 Apr, 2022, 09.16 AM IST
US’s Port of Long Beach moves record cargo despite logjamsUS supply chains have strained under unprecedented demand, worker and truck-chassis shortages and a shift to buying more material goods as ...
20 Jan, 2022, 11.30 AM IST
Shipping group Maersk expects cargo delays to persistAccording to Maersk the biggest waiting times for container vessels were at Long Beach port in Los Angeles where the waiting time is betwee...
16 Jan, 2022, 10.15 AM IST
U.S. ship logjam stretching far into pacific is longer than everThe average wait for ships was 20.8 days as of Friday, almost a week longer than a month ago, according to the L.A.’s Wabtec Port Optimizer.
05 Dec, 2021, 09.47 AM IST
Containers waited a record 7.6 days at LA ports in OctoberTo clear the logjams, the ports and White House on Oct. 25 announced a plan to charge carriers $100 per day for each container sitting on t...
23 Nov, 2021, 09.48 AM IST
Container logjam eases as LA Port threatens penaltiesLogjams at some of the nation’s key ports have compounded supply-chain bottlenecks that -- when coupled with higher labor and transport cos...
18 Nov, 2021, 09.28 AM IST
Xmas orders are pouring in but Indian exporters can’t find a shipIndian exporters had high hopes from this year’s Christmas season. But global supply chain disruption has crippled the logistics and shippi...
17 Nov, 2021, 08.42 AM IST
Ships keep coming, pushing U.S. port logjam and waits to recordsStrained supply chains have become an economic drag on the world’s largest economy and a political risk for President Joe Biden.
14 Nov, 2021, 10.22 AM IST
Supply chain chaos set to extend further, port operator ICTSI saysMajor bottlenecks have formed across the globe in recent months due to a surge in demand for retail goods from people stuck at home under p...
21 Oct, 2021, 09.32 AM IST
Port gridlock stretches supply lines thin in blow for economiesAs the Big Crunch of 2021 has repeatedly demonstrated, a bottleneck in one corner of the globe eventually exacerbates a logjam or compounds...
18 Oct, 2021, 09.06 AM IST
This port logjam has enough containers to cross half the USOutside the neighboring ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, the queue as of late Thursday had lengthened by 10 vessels over th...
19 Sep, 2021, 11.36 AM IST
The world’s other major shipping pileup is still clogging tradeA total of 26 container ships were anchored waiting to offload at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, as of Sunday.
30 Mar, 2021, 10.37 AM IST