How about a positive headline for 2020? It’s a great year for ocean freight carriers in the international shipping industry. Transpacific cargo volume ...

The last post was about how nobody knows anything about what will happen with the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) contract negotiations, ...

Shippers importing goods from anywhere in the world – but especially China and other Asian countries – should expect to experience delays and fees. ...

As the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach hit record volumes of imports for March and freight rates reached a new peak, experts are telling us that the ...

The Journal of Commerce (JOC) published a very interesting article by Larry Gross. Gross is president and founder of Gross Transportation Consulting and ...

In the last blog we talked about the very likely scenario that, with the master contract for the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) ...

For today’s blog, I thought we’d do something a little bit different. The artificial intelligence (AI) craze has hit. Despite all those warnings we got ...

This is a guest post by Eric Laurence. Trade policies and tariffs significantly impact the global economy, affecting various industries, including ...

The peak season is often a time of particular danger for shippers’ cargo from cargo theft. For the last 18 months, it has felt like a continuous peak ...

At the beginning of the month, we blogged about $100-per-day fines the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach were to impose on carriers for lingering ...

The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach seem happy to keep dangling the threat of incredibly high container dwell fees to induce movement of import ...

Parenting 101 from the Ports of Los Angeles & Long Beach On Tuesday, in yet another blog post about the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach ...