News / Chassis 'pool of pools' will speed up box moves at ports of LA and Long Beach

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Some 95% of the chassis in the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex are expected to eventually come under the management of a recently launched “pool of pools”.

From the beginning of this month, the three largest chassis pools operating in the two ports formally began to jointly manage their fleets.

The US is unique in the port industry through its use of independently owned chassis, or trailers, on which containers are hauled to and from ports. Previously, they had mostly been owned ...