Tag: port congestion

Members of the U.S Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Office of Multimodal Freight held a call with stakeholders across the United States supply chain on issues and disruptions stemming from the ongoing situation in the Red Sea.

Nautilus Labs and BIMCO released a white paper to implore the maritime industry to rethink prevailing charter party frameworks.

A new insight brief series was released this week from the Global Maritime Forum which identifies four actions that maritime and shipping industries can take now to support shipping’s transition to a sustainable and resilient zero-emission future.

A small complaint by SOFi Paper Products is spotlighting the enforcement efforts under the Shipping Reform Act, with the FMC issuing a “show cause” order against MSC for congestion fees that were charged to the shipper in July 2022.

The Port of Oakland’s container volume dropped in the month of November. Both full imports and full exports are down compared to November 2021, as well as below October 2022 volumes.

Dozens of merchant ships with grains and sugar are stuck outside Iranian ports after weeks of delays as payments snags disrupt flows of goods into the country, according to trade sources and shipping data.

After 25 months, the Marine Exchange of Southern California said that the container ship backup for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has ended.

According to Sea-Intelligence, with the continued gradual improvement in schedule reliability in August 2022 and the resultant improvement in vessel delays, the global fleet that was unavailable due to these delays dropped to 7.9%. This was from a peak of 13.8% in January 2022.

The Federal Maritime Commission is seeking public comment on whether supply chain congestion has created conditions warranting the issuance of an emergency order requiring common carriers and marine terminal operators (MTOs) to share key information with shippers, truckers, and railroads.

According to Carl W. Bentzel, Commissioner with the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission, the congestion at US ports comes from the lack of accountability in moving the buildup of empty containers back into the terminals.