Perpetual Peak Season As 2020 thankfully fades in the rear view mirror, we are getting a lot of inquiries about whether shipping rates have finally begun to retreat from the record levels seen in late 2020. In a word, the answer is no. It has become a perpetual Peak Season. If anything, we have seen further […]
With summer officially arriving this past weekend to mark the start of the traditional “peak season”, we wanted to take the opportunity to provide you with an update on our operational status, as well as a market update of current rates and conditions. OPERATIONAL STATUS We remain fully operational and open for business. Most of our […]
Overnight airfreight. Every shipping manager’s least favorite option. Let’s face it, if you need overnight air freight, something has usually gone drastically wrong. The situation typically goes something like this: Either your customer needs a critical part to keep their plant up and running, you are dangerously low on a key inventory component, or you […]
Valentine’s Day Flowers In February. Where Do They Come From? It’s Valentine’s Day and every street corner, grocery store, Costco and florist shop is overflowing with fresh fragrant flowers. There are amazing arrangements of roses, tropical and other exotic flora. In the middle of February. Did you every wonder how they do that? Unless you […]
Not to be outdone by Google, German vehicle manufacturer Daimler AG announced the introduction of a self-driving truck yesterday. U.S. based Freightliner, in turn, has been given a license by the State of Nevada to begin testing the vehicles on the road. From port automation, to Amazon delivery via drones and now this, the […]
With less than a week remaining until the current contract between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) expires, U.S. Customs (CBP) has published interim procedures in the case of a West Coast dock strike. Click here for a link to the CBP whitepaper with detailed information on the […]
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 […]
As I begin this journey into the past, present and future, I will attempt to take you on a trip that will give all of us some insight as to the airline industry and more specifically, the airline airfreight industry and??the air freighter. While my research is incomplete at the present time concerning??the status of […]
