Tag: Port of Los Angeles

Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka announced cargo volumes of nearly 10 million Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units for 2022, the second highest in the Port’s 115-year history.

The San Pedro Bay ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles will phase out the option to collect a “Container Dwell Fee” on January 24, 2023.

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.

A 26 meter long and 13 meter wide barge will be built by the Greenbrier Marine shipyard in Portland, Oregon, for Clean Air Engineering – Maritime, Inc. (CAE-M), which develops and operates systems that remove diesel emissions from the auxiliary engines and boilers of ocean-going vessels while at berth or anchor.

Maersk informed that the likelihood of the US implementing the “Container Dwell Fee” has risen significantly this month.

Employers at West Coast ports at the center of the U.S. supply-chain crisis welcome the benefits of automation, saying that paid hours at the two automated terminals in the San Pedro Bay complex have increased 31.5% since 2015.

The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles on April 1, 2022 will begin collecting a rate of $10 per TEU on loaded import and export cargo containers hauled by drayage trucks as they enter or leave container terminals.

The US Coast Guard worked with port partners to identify shipping containers with undeclared hazardous materials that led to a shipping container fire in the Port of Los Angeles – Long Beach, on March 4.

The vessel queue outside of Los Angeles/Long Beach (LA/LB) recently dropped to 66 vessels from 100-105 vessels. However, data from Sea-Intelligence indicate that this may not last long.

The Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach, in cooperation with the US government's port envoy, John Porcari, are exploring new ways to move empty containers.