While visiting Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, Lori Ann LaRocco and daughter Abby Wallace learned about families who were enslaved at the site.
All the pipes of trade are connected. If one pipe starts to have empty-container constriction, container prices will be influenced across the board.
China’s “dynamic COVID-zero policy” means more government-mandated testing — and more drayage delays.
Labor strikes and slowdowns at ports in Germany, Antwerp, Belgium, and Rotterdam, Netherlands, are crippling trade and could trigger more logistical inflationary pressures for U.S. importers and consumers.
The jaws of the supply chain vise are squeezing trade so tight that the headache it is creating will be a whopper for logistics managers this peak season.
A new tracking analytic uncovers the undercurrents within the flow of trade.
The Port of New York and New Jersey’s outgoing and incoming directors discuss container migration, reliance on data and how they avoided problems plaguing West Coast ports.
When it comes to lifting lockdowns in China, false hope will remain the norm.
China’s zero-COVID policy is a prescription for more inflation and supply chain “illness.”
Trucking solutions, sitting cargo are among the issues in Henan province’s capital city.
China’s zero-COVID measures will make it harder for European exports to reach the East Coast because empty containers aren’t getting where they’re needed.
The movement of materials and finished products between China and its key Asian suppliers is taking a big hit — and the ramifications will be felt around the world.
Zero-COVID policies seem effective only in creating widespread supply chain disruptions.
Relief efforts are ‘proving extremely challenging’ for those stuck on 140 vessels in the conflict zone.
“This will limit the capability of factories to deliver containers to the ports,” said one industry consultant.
Shippers should brace for “skyrocketing haulage costs,” HLS Holding warns.
The multiple testing hurdles and current stay-at-home orders in China are slowing down this critical movement of trade and increasing prices.
“50% of our ocean freight out of these two ports are non-electronic products,” explained Terry Unrein, COO of the Americas for Seko Logistics.
Seko Logistics, Worldwide Logistics among those reacting to China’s “zero-COVID” strategy.
Oil companies face a potential profits-versus-people dilemma as a flotilla of tankers carrying Russian oil heads for U.S. ports.
