Ryan Petersen, the founder and chief executive of the freight forwarding startup Flexport, wanted to understand the situation at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. So he rented a boat last week ...

After Petersen learned that the docks were too crowded to accept empty containers — which in turn meant truckers couldn’t collect their new shipments — he tweeted a thread filled with suggestions.

Container relocation and stacking optimisation are critical challenges in modern logistics, particularly in arid maritime container terminals where operational efficiency is paramount. These problems ...

The Port of Los Angeles will implement a fee on ocean carriers with empty containers that linger at least nine days on marine terminals, pending harbor commission approval. The fee, scheduled to take ...