The ports of L.A. and Long Beach as Move your freight or else

All eyes are on the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, where the ships waiting in San Pedro Bay have become a symbol of the worldwide logistics crunch....

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Transport logistics companies riding growth wave as Covid wanes

Global supply chain constraints and fuel price hikes continue to pose challenges. But their customers - such as automotive companies that have been hit the hardest - have assured them of increase in production, while the overall market is able to absorb the higher fuel prices. Transport Corporation of India NSE 9.6 .. ...

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Geodis expands SE Asia road freight network into booming Vietnam

Riding the boom in demand for overland cargo routes, Geodis has expanded its South-east Asia road freight network....

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US import rates poised for rebound as congestion worsens

All-inclusive container shipping rates from North Asia to North America are increasingly likely to rebound in November as port congestion and supply chain gridlock countered other bearish indicators....

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Debris, shipping containers wash up on Vancouver Island

VANCOUVER ISLAND, British Columbia. - Four of the more than 100 missing containers that fell off a vessel near the Strait of Juan de Fuca last week have been found washed up on remote parts of Vancouver Island....

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LA, Long Beach ports will issue fines for backlogged cargo

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex will begin fining shipping companies if they let cargo containers stack up as the nation’s busiest twin harbors deal with an unprecedented backlog of vessels....

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Industry looks to U.N. climate talks to steer cleaner shipping

LONDON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - World leaders attending COP26 climate talks from the end of the month must ratchet up pressure to make shipping decarbonise by 2050, a senior industry official involved in the meeting said....

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No relief from ridiculously expensive container shipping rates

“Cost of shipping between the U.S. and China plunges” blared a headline in early October, citing a reported halving of rates in a matter of days. Was this the beginning of the end of sky-high trans-Pacific shipping costs, the onset of the correction importers have been waiting for?...

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How a container storage yard fits into our global shipping crunch

As of Tuesday, 77 container ships were waiting to dock at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Most container ships like these hold between 10,000 and 21,000 20-foot standard shipping containers, referred to as TEUs, or twenty-foot equivalent units. Once ships are docked and containers are unloaded, storing those ...

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106 shipping containers floating in Pacific Ocean following bomb cyclone, cargo ship fire

NEAH BAY, Wash. - As many as 106 shipping containers from the Zim Kingston have been left drifting in the Pacific Ocean, according to the U.S. Coast Guard....

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