Importers and exporters alike are finding their operations both hobbled by and incurring additional costs for demurrage and detention at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The increased import volumes through LA/LGB as well as through New York and New Jersey have driven the Federal Maritime Commission to take action.
The start of the pandemic in China set off a chain reaction through supply chains that has reverberated the length of 2020 and will stretch into early 2021. Beginning with extended factory closures in China, carriers added more blanked sailings, or skipped voyages, through February and March. As COVID raged in Europe and then in North America, the grounding of passenger flights took away the majority of the air cargo space in airplane bellies on the transatlantic and other key trade lanes.
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