Ocean freight capacity has opened up significantly over the last several months. Congestion reduced globally while demand contracted, but the import volume decline has stabilized. As cargo flows have fallen...
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Will Your Shipping Container Echo in YM ETERNITY? (Yang Ming's Eternity) Divide $20k x 40’ by 11. /// What is the remainder of peak Transpacific freight rates? With once unobtainable...
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PART ONE It’s nothing new. The supply chain is in all kinds of crisis. From sluggish manufacturing in the world’s low-cost manufacturing hub, an unpredictable peak season ahead as terminal...
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You won't Believe How the Chinese Lockdowns will Affect your Shipping Plans The pandemic isn’t over. While life may be getting back to normal for many consumers, workers, and employers,...
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Why the thousand mile stare? A Trans-Pacific PO is not to be trifled with. Scarcity of raw materials and labor in and around factories, ports and warehouses is not changing…
Fireworks Safety (For Shippers) Mark your calendar! Chinese New Year festivities kick off February 1st. Why does this date matter to you? If you expect your goods to be shipped…
Thanks Given? The long-paralyzed Congress finally passed a $1.2 trillion Infrastructure bill, the Investment and Jobs Act, something we can choose to celebrate. (Or rage against, depending on which side…
Bottleneck got you down? We are still in the throes of unending supply chain congestion. Does the passage of a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that was finally lifted off the…
“A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.”– Leonardo da Vinci Had enough of supply chain snarls? An energy crisis in China is adding a…
Does Your Backlog Have a Backlog? You can lead a horse to water but… did you bring a saddle that was designed to fit a fully loaded 40-foot container? Turbulence…
L.A. Drifters Through a haze of bunker fuel shrouding harbors worldwide, the shipping industry’s zero carbon future is coming into view. A hard line is being drawn by both insiders…
Steaming Away With Shippers’ Margins If it feels like there’s a freight rate hike every few minutes, you’re not off base. COVID has exposed the stranglehold the three main ocean…
What Do Typhoons, Congestion, and Delta All Have In Common? …They all have led to delays and exacerbated congestion that keeps the entire shipping industry in crisis. 2021 has been…
More Congestion, More Surcharges It’s no secret that Trans-Pacific shipping is getting more and more expensive. There is widespread and legitimate fear and frustration from shippers across the globe that…
Pandemic induced disruptions will remain a challenge for shippers well into 2021. Unpredictable delays and logistical bottlenecks are driving container shortages and port congestion. Factory production delays in Asia add…
As millions struggle physically, emotionally, and financially due to the COVID pandemic, higher living costs may be on the horizon. This is partly due to elevated rates for the importation…
That could largely depend on a large metal box. Or, more accurately, the mobility of tens of millions of them. It’s 2021, and delivery delays and soaring freight rates are…
Raise your hand if the US import situation is driving you up the wall. Skyrocketing freight rates and unreliable carrier service is just the beginning. Congestion at all levels continues…
Congestion, COVID and lack of capacity. When is my container going to arrive? Industry experts say that there is no end in sight to the current crisis at West Coast…
Port congestion is an unavoidable part of the global shipping industry. There’s always going to be some level of logjams getting shipments in, out, and around but what we see…
