The shipping industry faces the threat of paying a levy to the European Union on its greenhouse gas emissions as lawmakers from the bloc grow increasingly impatient with the slow progress being made by the global effort to tackle the issue. The industry, which accounts for around 90 percent of goods transported globally, has rejected […]

Japan’s three biggest shippers agreed to combine their container operations to create the world’s sixth-largest box carrier, as the industry steps up consolidation this year amid a global turmoil in the sea-cargo business.

Marine terminal engineer Larry Nye has drawn up plans for container facilities around the world, but when it comes to choosing his preference for a US location, he doesn’t have to leave home. “Los Angeles-Long Beach is such a sure bet in terms of long-term demand,” he said. However, this sure bet of 15 million […]

The Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has concluded its review of the proposed OCEAN Alliance, allowing it to become effective on Monday, October 24, 2016.

The marine terminals at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach held a workshop with industry stakeholders over the weekend to evaluate potential alternatives to the current extended gates model used at the ports under the OffPeak Program.

When shippers awoke on Aug. 31, they faced q new reality: Hanjin Shipping, along with many of its retail, manufacturing and other shipper customers, assumed the company’s main creditor, the Korean Development Bank, would blink and grudgingly accept the container line’s plan to tackle its $5 billion debt. They were wrong. The bank had had […]

The more than decade-long comprehensive effort mounted by terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach to efficiently work the largest mega-ships shows other US ports have their work cut out for them, a Los Angeles port terminal operator said Monday. (This article requires registration at the Journal of Commerce. To access, please click on the above […]