Gary G. Burrows

1 week ago | fbjna.com | Gary G. Burrows

The Port of Los Angeles blamed the impacts of tariffs on imports and exports, as its May volume fell 5 percent to 716,619 twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, and ending 10 straight months of year-over-year growth in overall cargo volume. “May marked our lowest monthly cargo output in over two years,” said Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles.

1 week ago | fbjna.com | Gary G. Burrows

Trade moving through the Port of Long Beach declined 8.2 percent in May due to tariffs and retaliatory tariffs, but a temporary pause on those fees will likely trigger a cargo surge by late June. Dockworkers and terminal operators processed 639,160 twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs in May, down 8.2 percent from the same month last year.

1 week ago | fbjna.com | Gary G. Burrows

Ocean logistics giant A.P. Moller – Maersk named the first vessel in a series of 17,480 TEU vessels equipped with dual-fuel methanol propulsion, at a ceremony June 18 at Hyundai Heavy Industries’ (HHI) yard in Ulsan, South Korea. The Berlin Mærsk, is the 14th dual-fuel newbuild entering the Maersk fleet, and it will be followed by an additional five sister vessels in this new class of container ships.

1 week ago | fbjna.com | Gary G. Burrows

GEODIS has opened an office in Guadalajara, Jalisco, to support the growth of the global logistics provider’s growing nearshoring freight forwarding business in Mexico. The Guadalajara office, GEODIS’s second-largest operations center in Mexico, will become a shared services center, including key logistics operations for the entire Americas region, the company said. It will support all business, including accounting processes, supply chain engineering, operational logistics and control tower.

1 week ago | fbjna.com | Gary G. Burrows

Parcel service giant DHL said it will “moderately increase” prices for private customer parcels and small packages sent abroad, effective July 1. DHL said it will adjust parcel prices for different country zones variably and more cost-oriented. In many zones and weight categories, parcel prices will remain stable. Additionally, DHL will classify small packages into the same country zones that already exist for parcels.