How to navigate peak season crunch

Escalating tariffs and shrinking capacity are among the daunting issues supply chain professionals face.    Join experts from BNSF Railway, Alliance Shippers Inc. and FreightWaves at 2 p.m. ET Thursday as American Shipper brings you “Navigating New Realities: Peak Shipping Season Intermodal Outlook,” a webinar you can’t afford to miss.
   With peak shipping season starting particularly early this year, those responsible for both global and domestic supply chains face daunting conditions. We’ll discuss what’s driving this situation as well as best practices for U.S. importers heading toward the holiday season.
   A myriad of factors have contributed to an unusually precarious situation for supply chain professionals. Escalating tariffs and rhetoric about a full-blown trade war contributed to an early summer surge in volumes. Carriers have cut back on major trade lane capacity. And weather events in Asia have contributed to a situation in which ocean carriers have pricing power. Stories of growing rolled cargo pools across Asian ports, an already stretched tight trucking market across the U.S. West Coast and chassis and container availability concerns all face BCOs this year.
   With all these issues at hand, make sure to join us at 2 p.m. Thursday. It’s not too late to register for our first intermodal outlook. Register now!