Effectively all standard containers used in global shipping are made by Chinese state-owned enterprises. The dangers of that circumstance revealed themselves during the pandemic.
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Tug Life
From Canada to Panama, tugboat workers are being squeezed as shipping companies earn record profits.
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Supply Chain Fixes, Energy Transition Take Major Steps Forward
Nobody will tell you, but Congress came closer to re-regulating an economic sector while the president began the wartime mobilization of clean energy.
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Interest Rate Hikes Aren’t a Solution for Supply Shocks
Policymakers are employing the wrong tools for the current circumstances.
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New York Begins Rulemaking to Stop Corporate Profiteering
The attorney general’s office will seek to apply the state’s price-gouging law to opportunistic price increases that use high inflation as an excuse.
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Biden Wants to Take Down the Ocean Shipping Cartel
New initiatives would beef up investigations into anti-competitive conduct from the industry, which is enjoying astronomical profits.
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Re-Engineering Our Supply Chains
It’s time for a coherent national logistics system, regulating and coordinating what has been privatized.
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Inflation-Fighting Legislative Agenda Takes Shape
An ocean shipping regulatory bill got attached to a broader reshoring bill. There’s now an emerging bipartisan agenda to dismantle misguided, corporate-friendly policies.
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We Were Warned About the Ports
A 2015 federal report predicted the entire slowdown that’s come to pass.