International container shipping rates have plummeted more than 60 percent year-over-year, with industry insiders citing the decline in global cargo volume as the main reason, as well as the shipping market gradually recovering from the pandemic. According to the Drewry World Container Index, a UK-based maritime research and consulting service, the composite index for 40-foot…

The Port of Los Angeles is struggling to accommodate the demand of American consumers as record imports flow into the country while a 100-ship queue remains at sea waiting to berth. With no end in sight to traffic congestion, officials at the nation’s busiest port are fighting an uphill battle to keep the shelves in…

Los Angeles and Long Beach ports and surrounding neighborhoods continued to struggle with empty shipping container pileups. Officials at the ports reported some progress clearing containers at the terminals but local police and neighborhoods continued to see trailers dumped into their streets. Long Beach Police officers have cited unattached trailers loaded with containers parked along…

VICTORIA—Dozens of refrigerators and bags of Styrofoam and garbage have been picked up from a remote Vancouver Island beach as the cleanup has started from 109 shipping containers that fell overboard from a ship off Victoria. The Canadian Coast Guard says in a statement that 71 refrigerators, 81 bags of Styrofoam and 19 bags of…

Shipping companies at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will soon be fined if their containers stay in marine terminals for too long, officials announced on Monday. Officials at San Pedro Bay Ports said in a statement that the fines are being imposed in an effort to “improve cargo movement amid congestion and record volume.” Starting…

Shipping containers stranded for weeks at sea are now reportedly being abandoned in California neighborhoods. Anaheim Street in Los Angeles has become one of the locations where an overflow of empty containers now line local streets, as nearby UCTI Trucking deals with more than they can handle under the local port’s 24/7 operations. “It’s a…