It costs roughly $7 million to charter a vessel, but avoiding congested ports may be worth it for some big companies.
Every facet of the supply chain must be participating in an equal fashion in order to successfully complete the 90-day sprint.
Ports around the world often suffer from digital communication blackouts, inhibiting the real-time tracking of trade flows.
Dead spots are plaguing the flow of trade within the nucleus of their port bubbles. One wrong step at the Port of Los Angeles and your cellphone call could drop.
Halloween is among the most popular holidays in America, so the horrific congestion this year is no treat for the nation’s supply chain.
The proposals hope to enforce the carriage of trade and excessive penalties U.S. importers are being charged by foreign carriers.
In an effort to keep trade flowing, major carriers have canceled sailings to Yantian — a useful diversion that has created a whole new chain of bottlenecks.
No matter the rhetoric, the unvarnished truth is it takes people to move trade.
On this episode of Midday Market Update, Kaylee Nix and Michael Vincent look at top headlines and figure out if the Panama Canal is at risk for blockage.
On this episode of Midday Market Update, Kaylee Nix and Michael Vincent look at the first-mile logistics market and hear about a flurry of recent acquisitions.
Brett Rose, the CEO of United National Consumer Suppliers, discusses how container ship congestion is impacting the retail sector during a fireside chat with Lori Ann LaRocco, CNBC senior editor of guests and American Shipper columnist, during FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week.
Kevin Hill and Michael Vincent discuss the top headlines and get an update on how two consecutive winter storms are impacting shipping around the nation.
Maritime rates are still soaring as ports stay backlogged, but could a federal mask mandate help alleviate some of the issues?
China’s latest maritime measure to control the spread of the coronavirus will add to the clog of containers at ports.
French shipping giant says in a tweet expected some 24 hours earlier that all maritime and port operations are functioning normally.
Although “Containers Don’t Lie,” the story they are telling may not reveal the entire picture.
AB5 going nationwide, trucker parking, coronavirus hits retail, and more on the 15th episode of WHAT THE TRUCK?!?
Lori Ann LaRocco’s new book chronicles the tariff war and tracks its impact through trade flows.
