Category Archives: Shipping

These huge new ships for 18,000 containers will be such cost savers that 13,000 TEU ships will not be able to compete. And so what about the Panama Canal, which cannot accept them?

Global Supply Chain News: Maersk Triple E Cost Advantages are Too Great to Ignore.

Port Strategy newsletter says two US senators introduced legislation to change the taxing of cargo to raise more money and to prevent cargo escaping the fees by coming through Canadian ports and coming in by rail.  The Harbor Maintenance Tax is currently not always collected, and is open to the run-around through Canada with rail entry.

Port Strategy – New legislation for US ports.

Here is an article discussing various ports’ beliefs about why they rank where they do.  The list is instructive, though. LA and Long beach are still 1 and 2, and Oakland is 6th. I was surprised by that.

Top 30 U.S. Ports: Economies of scale in play – Article from Logistics Management.