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Container Shipping Rates May Take Two Years to Fall to Normal

Ocean freight rates, which have pummeled retailers and manufacturers throughout 2021, may take more than two years to return to normal levels if past market cycles are any guide.

Vessels loaded with shipping containers are docked at the Yangshan Deepwater Port in Shanghai, China. Photo: Bloomberg.

Foldable Shipping Containers? New Design Seen as Cure for Logjams

Few tools of the global economy have survived without major innovations as long as the shipping container. The supply ructions around the world are presenting an opportunity to test that incumbency.

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L.A., Long Beach to Delay Start of Fee for Lingering Containers

The $100-per-day fee for containers was put on hold until Nov. 22 because the ports have seen a “significant improvement in clearing import containers” in recent weeks.

Container ships moored off the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports in Long Beach, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

White House Spurns Intel Plan to Boost Chip Production in China

The Biden administration spurned a plan by Intel Corp. to increase production in China over security concerns, dealing a setback to an idea pitched as a fix for U.S. chip shortages.

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Georgia Port Pins Hopes on Rail to Move 80,000 Containers

At the Port of Savannah, one of the busiest U.S. trade gateways, containers are stacked up like colorful children’s building blocks stretching as far as the eye can see.

A truck carries a shipping container at the Georgia Port Authority Mason Mega Rail Terminal in Garden City, Georgia. Photo: Bloomberg.

Trucking Profits Soar as Their Customers Grapple With Shortages

While a global supply chain crisis is crimping sales for companies from Apple Inc. to Caterpillar Inc., transportation firms are riding an unprecedented profit boom.

A truck carrying a J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. intermodal container enters the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

Snarled Supply Chain Is Making U.S. Warehouse Shortage Worse

Fallout from the global supply chain crisis that’s clogging U.S. ports is pushing warehouses to capacity, and forcing logistics managers to scramble for space.

Rows of inventory in a distribution warehouse. Photo: Bloomberg.

Holiday Web Shoppers Face an Increase in Out-of-Stock Goods

U.S. online shoppers looking to stock up for the holidays are finding that virtual store shelves keep getting emptier.

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Turbocharged U.S. Consumer Plays Key Role in Supply Chain Snarls

Amid all the hand-wringing over global supply chain snarls and how they’re fanning inflation, little attention in the U.S. is being paid to the demand side of the economy.

A shopper carries a Coach Inc. retail bag. Photo: Bloomberg.

Smaller U.S. Ports Pitch for Cargo as California’s Logjams Swell

The U.S.’s busiest port complex in southern California has more demand than it can handle — and that’s left smaller hubs along the nation’s coastline angling for some of that business.

Container ships moored off the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports in Long Beach, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

Meat Prices Continue to Surge With Worker Shortage

Of all the industries experiencing crunches for hourly labor, it’s hard to find one with a greater recruiting challenge than meatpacking.

A worker packages trays of ground beef chuck. Photo: Bloomberg.

Fifty Years in Idle Time Seen for Trucks at Two Major U.S. Ports

Trucking trips originating around the U.S.’s busiest ports are showing massive increases in idle time, another sign of the supply chain logjams plaguing American transport hubs.

Freight trucks idle at the Port of Los Angeles. Photo: Bloomberg.

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