I have been in the logistics business in one form or another for nearly 27 years. At this point, our logistics team has delivered Crispy Creme donuts half way across the country for breakfast meetings, transported sixty foot sailboats made from recycled plastic bottles over 1400 miles to an inland museum and arranged for transportation […]
By Blake Cotcamp Meteorology Intern Summary: As spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere, our weekly weather summary for shipping has major snow events looking less and less likely for the near future. As a result, only a couple of minor threats to shipping are forecast this week, as a rain storm in Japan and a […]
By Blake Cotcamp Meteorology Intern Summary: The long, harsh winter for the Eastern United States is still going strong, as March will be welcomed in by a potent, late season winter storm that is expected to affect the eastern half of the country. The storm system that brought much-needed rain to California is expected to […]
Since late last year, shippers have struggled with both a serious shortage of container chassis, as well as port congestion at the nation’s largest ports. These two challenges are inter-related and have been especially severe at the nations’s busiest ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach and New York/New Jersey. Matters have been compounded on the East […]
By Blake Cotcamp Meteorology Intern Summary: The continuously active winter for the United States could bring treacherous conditions to the South this week, as a potentially dangerous ice storm appears to be in store for Atlanta and parts of Northern Georgia. The same system is also expected to bring some snow to the Mid-Atlantic Region […]
Widespread Snow Across the United States Slows Shipping By Blake Cotcamp Meteorology Intern Summary: In this week’s global weather synopsis, a snowy winter for the Northern Hemisphere is expected to continue this week as another winter storm takes aim for the eastern half of the United States, where predicted snow totals have the potential to cause […]
In the age of Amazon Prime, free shipping and drones delivering packages directly to your residence, we thought we would offer you a little bit of down-to-earth advice while Amazon.com works the kinks out of their drone program. After all, who doesn’t like to save on shipping? In today’s article, we take a look […]
Here it is January of the New Year and you promised your boss that you were going to sit down and review your list of vendors. Or worse, your longtime freight broker has suddenly gone out of business, a roadkill victim of the new MAP-21 legislation recently mandated by Congress. In this article, we take […]
Updated 1/22/2104: As of this morning, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reports that all U.S. airports are operating normally and experiencing minimal flight delays. Road conditions remain hazardous for ground transport, but are passable in most areas. WINTER WEATHER ALERT: Air & Surface Logistics is monitoring another strong winter storm system as it […]
Global Weather Forecast for the Week of 1/19/2014: Snowstorms in the US and Europe By Blake Cotcamp Meteorology Intern Summary: As winter peaks in the Northern Hemisphere this week, multiple areas of the globe will see snowfall that is typical for this time of year. The east coast of the United States is in […]
