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Long Beach Eases Container Rules to Tackle ‘National Emergency’

Officials in Long Beach, California, relaxed restrictions on storing shipping containers in a bid to ease a bottleneck that’s left nearly 80 vessels waiting offshore to enter the biggest U.S. gateway for ocean freight.

A truck stops at the Port of Long Beach. Photo: Bloomberg.

Biden Races Clock But Holds Few Tools in Supply Chain Crisis

While Republicans point to the supply chain as further evidence the president is mismanaging the economy, the issues are deep-rooted.

Photo: Bloomberg.

Long Beach Port Chief: ‘Shop Early’ as Snarls to Last All Year

Americans should buy their holiday gifts early this year, as the container glut plaguing ports and the supply chain will persist through at least year-end, the head of California’s Port of Long Beach said.

Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

Watch: Is American Manufacturing Due for a Resurgence?

Shay Scott, executive director of the Global Supply Chain Institute, and professor in the University of Tennessee’s Master of Science in Supply Chain Management online program, weighs the factors that might influence American manufacturers to reshore production from Asia to the U.S.

Is American Manufacturing Due for a Resurgence?

Music, Barbecues, Wi-Fi: Managing Morale for Those Idled at Sea

With many of the world’s 400,000 merchant mariners still struggling to take time off and go home, seafarer fatigue remains a problem heading into the second holiday season of the pandemic.

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

Global Port Gridlock Threatens Economies Everywhere

Global ports are growing more gridlocked as the pandemic era’s supply shocks intensify, threatening to spoil the holiday shopping season, erode corporate profits and drive up consumer prices.

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

Port-Crisis Plan Seeks Inland U.S. Terminals, More Truckers

Commitments from shippers and cargo owners to move toward around-the-clock unloading at the docks in Los Angeles are a first step to addressing a national supply chain backlog.

Truck chassis sit stacked at the APM shipping terminal in the Port of Los Angeles. Photo: Bloomberg.

Biden Confronts Supply Chain Crisis Stretching Past His Grip

President Biden wants to break a logjam at U.S. ports and stave off a holiday season of shortages and delays — bottlenecks that officials and stakeholders say extend far beyond the reach of the White House.

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on supply chain bottlenecks ahead of the Christmas shopping season. Photo: Bloomberg.

China's Golden Week Adds to Global Shipping Delays

China’s week-long holiday has exacerbated congestion at two of the country’s busiest ports — Shanghai and Ningbo — where hundreds of cargo ships are waiting to berth.

An aerial view of the Port of Shanghai in Shanghai, China. Photo: Getty Images.

'Lots of Money' to Be Made in Shipping’s Future Fuels

The race to wean shipping off oil and switch to cleaner fuels should prove lucrative for investors and is drawing interest from fund managers, according to Boston Consulting Group.

An LNG-powered container ship operated by CMA CGM SA is docked at the Port of Singapore. Photo: Bloomberg.

Supply Chain Crisis May Have Caused California Oil Spill

The gridlock of container ships outside the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach may have been the cause of a major oil spill off the coast of California, according to authorities.

Anchor of a container ship. Photo: Getty Images.

Port Logjams Reach East Coast as Container Ships Idle off Savannah

The port bottlenecks that have snarled U.S. supply chains have spread to the East Coast.

A container ship approaches Georgia’s Port of Savannah. Photo: Getty Images.

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