u.s. west coast ports

By Sly Hunter and Shawn Bennett, As California goes so goes the nation, and how the state regulates its extensive maritime industry has a ripple effect

CHICAGO, May 18 (Reuters) – Some U.S. importers who shifted cargo away from West Coast ports to rival gateways over fears that labor contract

By Laura Curtis (Bloomberg) — California has suffered a series of economic blows this year, from torrential rains that inundated farmland to

Over one million twenty-foot equivalent import containers per year have shifted away from U.S. West Coast ports, with Gulf Coast ports being the biggest

The Port of Long Beach announced Friday it will receive a $30.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to deploy the nation’s largest fleet

By Augusta Saraiva (Bloomberg) –Labor negotiations at 29 West Coast ports are set to start next week with both sides saying they want to avoid further

By Ian Putzger in Toronto (The Loadstar) – Concern over lengthening container dwell times at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has caused U.S.

By Josh Eidelson (Bloomberg) — U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said he’ll be closely watching West Coast dockworkers’ contract talks in coming

By Laura Curtis (Bloomberg) — About 1,700 dockworkers at West Coast ports have tested positive for Covid-19 in January, stretching capacity at the

FRANKFURT, Nov 18 (Reuters) – The shipping industry may face unexpected risks from labour negotiations in western U.S. ports and winter weather

By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES, Aug 13 (Reuters) – Imports at major U.S. container seaports could hit their lowest level in four years as the novel

Imports at the nation’s major retail container ports are expected to hit their highest level of the year again next month ahead of new tariffs set to take

By Dan Levine SAN FRANCISCO, March 29 (Reuters) – Four women dockworkers have filed federal discrimination claims against the shippers’

By Gavin van Marle (The Loadstar) – As shippers and carriers on the transpacific prepare for the annual contract negotiating season – which kicks

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, July 28 (Reuters) – Dockworkers at 29 ports in California, Oregon and Washington are expected to ratify a three-year

The Port of Oakland has reported huge declines in diesel emissions from both ships and trucks as part of a long-term plan to enhance air quality for

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Shipping companies and a powerful dockworkers union have agreed to discuss a possible extension to a

By Andy Hoffman (Bloomberg) — Global container shipping lines face one or two more years of pain as the industry consolidates amid overcapacity and

French container shipping company CMA CGM has confirmed that starting in the end of May it will deploy six 18,000 TEU ‘megaships’ between Asia and

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) — Christmas saw the 17,859 teu CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin become the largest container vessel ever to call at a US port