October 27, 2021 On this episode of What's Going on With Shipping, host Sal Mercogliano - Chair of the Department of History, Criminal Justice, and Political Science, former merchant mariner, and instructor of Maritime History, Security and Industry Policy - discusses the decision by the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to impose $100 late fines, increasing exponentially, on containers in their terminals after November 1, 2021 against the ocean carriers. This episode discusses, who will really pay those fines, who is behind the fines, whether or not the ports can actually levy them in the time identified, and what role the carriers are playing in the congestion.