Commentary: Assessing the COVID cargo crunch
“Additional stress on an already-overloaded system tends to further destabilize the system.”
“Additional stress on an already-overloaded system tends to further destabilize the system.”
Speed, safety and reliability are taken into account when choosing truck routes.
Trans-Pacific spot index rates haven’t budged from the same peak band for the past 10 weeks. How is this possible in a competitive free market?
Trade group representing drayage drivers calls the move “huge”
The state of customers’ freight remains unknown as inspection of the 14,052-TEU vessel begins.
Sixty-four missing containers carried liquid ethanol, batteries and fireworks.
Port communities in LA, Charleston and Philadelphia already at risk, officials assert.
Surviving cargo that was bound for the U.S. now is headed back to Asia.
Quick action comes on heels of a call for action by key trade group; Commissioner Maffei says it may not be enough
Air cargo carrier names Yulia Celetaria health care director and forms vaccine task force.
Trucking and rail volumes remain elevated while the imports fade. Is this is beginning of the end of the 2020 freight boom?
Gateway remains cautious and braced “for any shocks still to come.”
There are not enough containers in China to handle all the U.S.-bound cargo — and box factories are now sold out into Q2.
The trans-Pacific capacity crunch continues. Container volume that’s either inbound to Los Angeles or stuck at anchorage is surging.
The trans-Pacific market is bursting at the seams as shippers rush in holiday cargoes.
On a collision course: holiday timing, surging consumer demand, thin inventories, and capacity constraints for container liners and ports.
Freight volumes are not the only thing putting pressure on capacity.
Anthony and Zach bring on Maritime expert Henry Byers to discuss the near- and long-term impacts to the domestic freight market resulting from the record-breaking influx of shipments from Asia.
The harbor commission voted to replace the aging Gerald Desmond Bridge in August 2010.
U.S. importers now paying three times more per mile than Europeans for transport of Chinese goods.