With Los Angeles-Long Beach dockworkers back to work, the port labor spotlight returns to the International Longshoremen’s Association on the East and Gulf coasts.
Q: In your Nov. 19 column, “Master of the Billing Domain,” you responded to a question from a shipper who’d had a carrier combine two shipments tendered on two separate bills of lading at different times on the same day into a single shipment, and then billed charges higher than would have accrued if the two shipments had been handled separately.
It’s well-known that global container volumes are slowing. But the impact this will have on the industry isn’t nearly as well understood, if only because a new era of slower growth is arguably just beginning.
Maybe it’s the approach of the holiday season and its inevitable references to “A Christmas Carol,” but the ghosts of intermodal past seem to be offering good advice for us now and for the future.
An unhappy freight forwarder questions why forwarders are being lumped in with brokers in the recently enacted MAP-21 law that raises the security bond required for motor carrier brokers to $75,000.
Happy holidays? Not for shippers. Last summer they sweated the possibility of a peak-season strike by the International Longshoremen's Association. Now they're facing the real threat of an ILA work stoppage at year-end.
Brinkmanship in Delray Beach
How Do You Fix a Broken TWIC?
Q&A: Riders on the Storm
Meanwhile Back East ...
It's Time for Politicians to Take a Stand
Energy Alternative: Putting the Cow in CNG
Accuracy in Billing: Look to the Tariff
Future Shock
Ghosts of Intermodal Past
Forwarders vs. Brokers: The Bond That Ties
ILA-USMX: Time for Shippers to Worry (Again)
Subsidizing the Sealift Fleet
Optimizing Your Distribution Options
Master of the Billing Domain
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