By Mike Jacob, President, Pacific Merchant Shipping Association

Explore how the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach closed out 2025 with historic achievements—record cargo volumes, operational efficiency gains, and leading environmental performance across the nation’s busiest seaport complex despite market volatility and trade uncertainty.

By Mike Jacob, President, Pacific Merchant Shipping Association

Examine how 2025’s intermodal system shocks—rail bottlenecks, shifting carriage patterns, and coast-to-coast network constraints—may be reinforcing the pandemic-era divergence in volume and efficiency between U.S. West Coast ports and their inland/Atlantic counterparts. (pmsaship.com)

By Thomas Jelenić, Vice President, Pacific Merchant Shipping Association

This article explores the renewed collaboration between the ports, industry, labor and regulators in Southern California — proving that when stakeholders unite behind clear infrastructure and emissions frameworks, shared goals like decarbonization and cargo growth become achievable. Join us in supporting this balanced future.

John Wolfe, CEO for the Northwest Seaport Alliance

Recently the Ports of Seattle and Tacoma and the Northwest Seaport Alliance released a first of its kind collaborative effort to measure the statewide economic impact of our Puget Sound ports. From the airport, to our marine cargo gateway, from the fishing fleets to the ecosystem of industrial lands that support all our port’s activities, these ports have a regional to global impact.

Mario Cordero, CEO of the Port of Long Beach

In recent weeks, the Port of Long Beach announced the results of its new economic impact analysis that shows the millions of jobs and billions of dollars in wages that trade through our gateway supports across our nation.

Discover key insights from the new Goods on the Move report by SCLC and LAEDC, highlighting Southern California's $497B trade and logistics industry, its challenges, and bold policy solutions for sustaining economic growth and competitiveness.

Uncertainty in global trade is impacting investment, logistics, and competitiveness. Learn how businesses are adapting to shifting tariffs and supply chain disruptions.

By Mike Jacob, President, Pacific Merchant Shipping Association

By Jacqueline M. Moore, Vice President, Pacific Merchant Shipping Association