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In Trans-Pacific Trade, Does the U.S. Exporter Stand a Chance?

Prior to 2020, American exporters benefited from unreasonably low ocean rates on trans-Pacific westbound lanes.

Summer of Sold-Out Ships Awaits as Sea Cargo Chaos Intensifies

Container shipping rates are heading higher again, driven to new heights by unrelenting consumer demand and company restocking from Europe to the U.S. that are exhausting the world economy’s capacity to move goods across oceans.

Photo courtesy of the Port of Los Angeles.

Shipping Containers Are Falling Overboard at a Rapid Rate

Containers piled high on giant vessels carrying everything from car tires to smartphones are toppling over at an alarming rate, sending millions of dollars of cargo sinking to the bottom of the ocean as pressure to speed deliveries raises the risk of safety errors.

Photo: Bloomberg

Watch: What to Do About the Global Container Shortage

Rob Handfield, Bank of America Professor of Supply Chain Management with the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative in the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University, discusses the reasons behind the current worldwide shortage of ocean containers, and what carriers and manufacturers must do to solve it.

What to Do About the Global Container Shortage

The Shipping Industry Wants to Be Taxed for Its Carbon Emissions

It’s rare for an industry powered by fossil fuels to call for a tax on its own carbon emissions. Yet the shipping sector is doing just that.

Emissions from a cargo ship at dusk. Photo: Shutterstock.

Oakland Tops L.A. Area as Ships Inundate World’s Ports

It’s hard to predict when normality will return.

Source: Port of Oakland

L.A.-Area Port Backlog Persists as Imports Surge

Ship congestion outside the busiest U.S. gateway for trade with Asia persisted over the past week as imports surged through March, usually one of the slower months of the year for container volumes.

Palm trees stand before stacks of shipping containers at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

Higher Shipping Costs Are Here to Stay, Sparking Price Increases

Stubbornly high shipping expenses for businesses are getting sealed into contracts for the next 12 months, forcing companies to pass the extra costs on to consumers.

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

Commodity Shipping Rates Are Surging Amid Uneven Recovery

For a glimpse of how quickly and unevenly economies are recovering from the pandemic, look no further than the market for shipping raw materials.

A gantry crane loads a shipping container filled with corn for export from a grain terminal operated by Cargill Inc. Photo: Bloomberg.

Biden Infrastructure Plan Seeks $571 Billion in Transport Funds

President Biden’s proposed infrastructure bill calls for $571 billion in additional transportation spending over current federal levels, and $50 billion to make infrastructure more resilient to climate change.

Photo: Bloomberg

Watch: The Global Impact of Biden’s Supply Chain Executive Order

A look at the possible implications of President Biden’s order to review critical supply chains on the United States’ relations with its trading partners, with Jeff Weiss, partner and co-chair of the International Trade Policy Practice, and leader of the Supply Chain Team, of Steptoe & Johnson LLP.

The Global Impact of Biden’s Supply Chain Executive Order

FourKites Acquires Haven Inc., Introduces End-to-End Visibility Platform for International Ocean Shipment Visibility

FourKites, a provider of real-time supply chain visibility solutions, recently announced its acquisition of Haven, Inc., and the introduction of Dynamic OceanSM, an end-to-end visibility solution for international ocean shipments.

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