Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach To Fine Companies For Slow Container Movement
In another effort to ease congestion, the Ports of L.A. and Long Beach have announced that they will begin fining companies for slow container movement.
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In another effort to ease congestion, the Ports of L.A. and Long Beach have announced that they will begin fining companies for slow container movement.
Long Beach announces relaxation of shipping container stacking rules in an effort to ease the backlog of ships waiting to unload cargo.
Dozens of cargo ships have been anchored offshore from the ports of L.A. and Long Beach for weeks.
Though there were no injuries in Tuesday's accident, it occurred in a neighborhood where residents have been complaining about heavy congestion and safety issues.
Many of the shipping containers that spent weeks onboard ships waiting to be unloaded are now being dumped in nearby neighborhoods once they're emptied.
Several local legislators and conservationists, including actor and activist Jane Fonda, met at Main Beach in Laguna Beach to call for a ban on all offshore oil drilling after hundreds of thousands of gallons poured into the ocean off the coast of Huntington Beach. That includes existing leases that they say could run off the Orange County coast for decades.
The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are responsible for nearly half of all imports into the U.S.
Small and mid-size retailers are being hit hardest by the cargo ship bottleneck.
Watchdog groups are concerned that the bottleneck at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach may have played a role in the spill.
Cargo ships continue to arrive off the coast of Southern California, and the shipping bottleneck may be why product prices are going up, even though shelves remain empty.
"There's things we ordered back in January that we still haven't received and may not receive ever," says Jessica Goldfarb, owner of the gift shop Limonaia in Santa Monica.
The jam in the waters off the Port of Los Angeles continues to get worse, with a new record of 70 cargo ships waiting to get into the LA and Long Beach ports – up from 60 that were spotted last week.
If the items were genuine, they'd have a value of over $53 million, authorities said.
The Port of Long Beach Friday announced the completion of the Long Beach Container Terminal at Middle Harbor.
The counterfeit bottles were discovered in a single shipment from Hong Kong that was only supposed to contain cell phone accessories.
Port of Long Beach Executive Director Mario Cordero is calling for port workers to immediately be given priority to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Fire crews Wednesday night extracted a person from a car that appeared to be stuck under a container loader at the port of Long Beach.
The coronavirus pandemic, coupled with the normal flu season, could make for a very difficult winter.
The six-lane, cable-stayed bridge replaces the Gerald Desmond Bridge and will be a major regional highway connector as well as improve the movement of cargo.
The Port of Long Beach will offer drive-up COVID-19 testing for dockworkers, truckers, other frontline labor partners, and the public starting Monday.
Twenty-four oil tankers were spotted anchored off the shore of Southern California, waiting to get into the Port of Long Beach.
The Port of L.A. saw its imports drop by 22.5 percent in February.
They fear the introduction of driverless vehicles will lead to the loss of thousands of jobs at both the Port of L.A. and the Port of Long Beach.
Harbor commissioners have approved plans to drastically cut air pollution at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach by 2035.
A bankruptcy filing by one of the world's largest shipping lines has left a few of the company's cargo ships stranded at sea off the Southern California coast.
