Truckers at the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach strike continue to congest ships and wait for 8 days! Shipping companies raise general freight rates

Truckers at the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach strike continue to congest ships and wait for 8 days! Shipping companies raise general freight rates
Strikes have occurred in many ports recently, including the Port of Montreal in North America and Auckland, the largest port in New Zealand. It is reported that truck drivers at the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach also went on strike.


According to foreign media reports, truck drivers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, represented by the Teamsters union, began strike action this week to boycott Universal Logistics Holdings (ULH), which will further aggravate congestion on the west coast of the United States.


According to the Teamsters website, ULH's port affiliates "unlawfully fired Teamsters and refused to pay them back pay, as well as refusing to recognize and bargain with the legally won rights of the union drivers."

The strike was mainly to protest ULH's flagrant violation of federal labor laws. It is understood that ULH is a multi-billion dollar logistics company and one of the largest freight companies serving Southern California.


It is worth noting that just before this strike, on March 17 this year, the National Labor Relations Board accused ULH-owned companies of violating multiple federal labor laws, including firing all drivers of Universal Truckload in order to combat and prevent union activities and prevent employees from filing lawsuits.

Truck drivers participating in the strike said that since the congestion at the West Coast ports of the United States has not yet been alleviated, they hope that the strike action can prompt the problem to be resolved as soon as possible. If the strike continues, it will seriously affect the container transportation of West Coast ports of the United States, further exacerbating cargo congestion and shipping delays.

Meanwhile, record box ship congestion in San Pedro Bay shows little sign of abating.


Imports are pouring into the Port of Los Angeles. March set a new record. Container volumes are expected to remain at their highest levels through June, but container ships are still facing delays.

“It’s crazy,” Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, said at a news conference on Wednesday. “In March, the Port of Los Angeles handled 957,599 TEUs, up 113% year-over-year, the highest volume in March in the history of the port.”

“If you put those containers end to end, they would stretch from Los Angeles to New York and then halfway across the United States.”

Recent import volumes at the Port of Los Angeles

Among them, the total number of import containers was 490,115 TEU, an increase of 122% year-on-year ; the total number of export containers was 122,899 TEU, an increase of 1 % year -on-year. The total number of outbound empty containers was 344,585 TEU, an increase of 219% year-on-year .

"For a peak season like September or October, that's a big number," Seroka said.

But container ships remain plentiful in San Pedro Bay, with the average time spent at anchor still at eight days as of Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles-based data platform. That’s up from the seven to 7.5 days reported in January and February.


Seroka said 20 ships were at anchor on Wednesday, compared with a peak of 40 ships on Feb. 1, which he estimated was "halved."

Looking at the data more broadly, the improvement is less dramatic.

Daily anchorage counts from the Southern California Marine Exchange show an average of 29.6 vessels per day at anchorage so far. This average was exceeded as recently as April 2. The April average so far is 24.1 vessels per day, 18.5% below the year-to-date average, which is decent progress but far from the “halving” level.

"We hope to get that down to zero," Seroka said. "The goal is to clean the anchorage and allow ships to berth directly. We may have to do another six weeks of deep excavation work during this period." He said he expects to see ships at anchor "probably in late May or early June."

Hapag-Lloyd increases general freight rates from East Asia to the U.S. and Canada


According to the announcement, Hapag-Lloyd will increase its General Rate of Freight (GRI) from East Asia to all destinations in the United States and Canada from May 15, 2021 (the date of receipt at the origin). Applicable to all dry, refrigerated, non-operating refrigerated, tank, flat rack and open top containers:

East Asia to North America (USA and Canada)


USD 960 per all 20' container types


USD 1200 per all 40' container types



East Asia is defined as Japan, South Korea, China/Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macao, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines, and the Pacific coastal provinces/regions of Russia.


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