Here are the 10 most-read stories on the Transports Topics website in 2021, based on Google Analytics. Unlike in 2020, when eight of the top 10 stories were directly related to the COVID-19 pandemic, only one story in 2021 had a direct relation. Two others, however, were related to the

[Source: Transport Dive]   Supply chain problems, many jointly related to trucking and West Coast ports, have frustrated transport executives and national leaders for months. But the regulatory relief may be chipping away at a persistent problem in 2021. Much of that relief, of late, has been aimed at the

[Source: Transport Topics]   The country’s largest ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will postpone the start of a fee on ocean carriers that fail to clear containers off the docks, which was set to begin Nov 15.

[Source: Transport Topics] With a near-record 75 containerships waiting outside the U.S.’s largest port complex in Southern California, unionized dockworkers have strengthened their indispensable role in the supply chain.

[Source: American Shipper] American Shipper is reporting another wrinkle facing the Port of Los Angeles as it tries to clear the massive congestion. Thousands of additional empty containers are en route to the Port of Los Angeles from East Coast and Gulf Coast ports.

[Source: Transport Topics] — The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are gearing up to operate 24/7 to clear the massive backlog of 20-foot-equivalent (TEU) containers as they pile up at the two Southern California ports and others on both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts.