The number of containerships headed for the California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach — a traffic jam that once symbolized American consumer vigor during the pandemic — declined to the lowest…
Importers looking to avoid congestion at West Coast gateways are triggering bottlenecks at ports from New York to Houston U.S. importers seeking relief from bottlenecks at West Coast gateways are triggering new backups…
Retailers and logistics operators are struggling to find space to store the flood of goods that have swamped warehouses and weighed on their balance sheets. Warehouse owners say more retailers are looking to…
With protesters limited to ‘free-speech zones,’ companies focus on clearing a big backlog of import and export containers Cargo containers started moving again through California’s Port of Oakland on Monday after independent truck…
Shippers are trying to reset contract agreements to cut expenses, but costs remain several times higher than before the Covid-19 pandemic . High-price freight contracts that were written when carrier capacity was tight…
Labor unrest disrupts supply chains from sea to sky, and that’s because after years of stagnant wages, workers want to get paid; especially those in logistics or other frontline industries that kept economies running during…
Mark Boone grudgingly accepted that the cost of shipping a container of wax melters from Pakistan to Charleston, S.C., doubled in the past year to more than $17,000. But the shipping line’s extra…
The outlook for economic growth in the first quarter and 2022 is darkening amid the latest wave of Covid-19, as consumers grapple with high inflation and businesses juggle labor and production disruptions. Forecasters…
