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Americans Face Record Metals Prices as Shipping Costs Surge
Surging prices of the raw materials needed for your refrigerators, automobiles, window frames and plumbing show no signs of abating as America’s supply chain crisis spills into another year.
Fiber optic cables, center, and copper Ethernet cables feed into switches inside an office communications room. Photo: Bloomberg.
Bipartisan Ocean Shipping Overhaul Introduced in U.S. Senate
The first major update of U.S. international ocean-shipping laws in more than two decades has been introduced in the Senate, a significant step toward passage after passing the House with bipartisan support in December.
Photo courtesy of the Port of Los Angeles.
Vaccine Protest Snarls Canada-U.S. Border Crossing for Fifth Day
Two lanes of traffic have reopened at one of Canada’s busiest border crossings five days after a group of vehicles blocked the highway to protest vaccine mandates for truckers.
Demonstrators gather as rows of trucks sit parked during a protest against vaccine mandates in Ottawa, Ontario. Photo: Bloomberg.
Trucker Protest Strands Beef Shipments at U.S.-Canada Border
Protesters who are rallying against vaccine mandates are holding up shipments of Canadian beef to the U.S.
Commercial trucks and passenger vehicles drive across Ambassador Bridge on the Canada-U.S. border in Windsor, Ontario. The bridge connects Windsor to Detroit and facilitates over 30% of all Canada-U.S. road trade. Photo: Bloomberg.
Covid Cases for U.S. West Coast Dockworkers Top All of 2021’s
About 1,700 dockworkers at West Coast ports have tested positive for COVID-19 in January, stretching capacity at the U.S.’s busiest gateway for shipping containers.
A truck stops at the Port of Long Beach. Photo: Bloomberg.
LA, Long Beach Ports Move Record Cargo Despite Logjams
The Port of Los Angeles moved record cargo volumes last year amid an import surge at the U.S.’s biggest container gateway and supply chain snarls brought on by the pandemic.
Shipping containers in the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Bloomberg.
Supply Chain Crisis Helped Shipping Companies Reap $150 Billion in 2021
Economists warn that persistently high transportation prices are stoking inflation and clouding the recovery.
Container ships moored off the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports in Long Beach, California. Photo: Bloomberg.
LA Looters Raid Unattended Containers Amid Supply Chain Chaos
As many Americans worry about empty shelves and delayed packages, looters are taking advantage of the inflow of goods outside of the two southern California ports that are responsible for handling almost half of all U.S. imports.
CBS footage shows lines of looted packages stretching along a railway in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles. Photo: @johnschreiber/ Twitter.
Global Supply Chains Brace for Impact as Omicron Reaches China
An omicron outbreak in China is sending jitters through supply chains as manufacturers and shippers brace for disruption inside the world’s-biggest trading nation if it can’t contain the fast-spreading variant.
A container ship leaves the Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan in Ningbo, China. Photo: Bloomberg.
New York Port Hustles to Cut Rare Logjam Amid Covid Labor Woes
The Port of New York and New Jersey is working to clear a small but rare bottleneck of container ships anchored off the coast of Long Island as COVID-19 cases among dockworkers collide with a pandemic-fueled surge in cargo volumes.
Shipping containers on a cargo ship at Bayonne Terminal in Bayonne, New Jersey. Photo: Bloomberg.
U.S. Needs to Guard Exports From Supply Chain Snarls, Biden’s Envoy Says
U.S. port authorities and ocean carriers, dealing with record import volumes, need to ensure that exports aren’t hindered amid the unprecedented supply chain logjams that aren’t showing clear signs of dissipating, President Biden’s port envoy says.
A CMA CGM Group container ship is berthed at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, California. Photo: Port of Oakland.
Firms Hit by New Brexit Red Tape as IT System Stops Trucks
U.K. traders are falling foul of a new IT system policing goods crossing the English Channel, as companies grapple with a fresh wave of post-Brexit red tape.
A truck passes a British Union flag at the Port of Dover Ltd. in Dover, U.K. Photo: Bloomberg.
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