It looks like the practices of ocean carriers during the pandemic and the resulting record-high freight rates have caught the attention of American and ...
The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has opened an inquiry to the public regarding the billing practices of ocean freight carriers.The controversy is the ...
The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) is increasing how often ocean freight carriers from the three major alliances that dominate global shipping must ...
Transpacific freight rates, and freight rates in general, were astronomical in 2020, rising and rising until, at last, they reached a plateau around the ...
The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) made a regulation move concerning ocean freight carriers. It’s actually a bit of deregulation when it comes to ...
Right now, there are a few governmental moves concerning international shipping that should pique U.S. shippers’ interest. First, the Federal Maritime ...
Afer two years of port congestion and supply chain disruption and with new powers from the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (“OSRA 2022”), the Federal ...
While the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) seems to still be figuring out how to enforce the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA), it seems more ...
Shippers have long complained about unfair detention and demurrage fees at the ports. A particular point of contention is getting charged for days when ...
Democrat and Republican lawmakers seem to have found something they can agree on: the international shipping industry, and ocean freight sector in ...
Approaching a year after the bipartisan Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA) was signed into law, we’ve only barely begun to see its impact. It’s ...
Introduction We’re still only beginning to see how the changes to U.S. shipping law will affect businesses’ imports and exports as well as carriers’ ...