Importers moving containers through Southern California’s San Pedro Bay port complex should update their landed-cost forecasts. Effective August 1, 2026, the PierPASS Traffic Mitigation Fee, or TMF, at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach increased by 4.77%. The new rate is $40.63 per twenty-foot equivalent unit, or TEU, and $81.26 for containers of all other sizes. The increase applies to non-exempt containers handled … Read More
Fuel Volatility Is Reshaping Transportation Costs
Fuel prices have always influenced transportation costs, but in the current market, the impact is becoming harder to ignore. For many shippers, the biggest challenge is not only that diesel is expensive. It is that diesel volatility is now flowing directly into weekly fuel surcharge adjustments, making logistics budgets more difficult to predict from one week to the next. That matters because transportation spend is … Read More