U.S. Congress Takes Aim at Container Carriers to Ease Crisis

Container shipping companies enjoying the best of times for profitability and the worst of times for global supply-chain reliability are ending the year hoping Washington doesn’t make the problems even tougher to resolve.

The House plans this week to vote on a bill (H.R. 4996) to address container disruptions and to beef up the Federal Maritime Commission’s enforcement, Bloomberg Government’s Lillianna Byington reports.