We’ve all read stories the stories and seen the TV news over the past few months. Oil prices have collapsed, there’s an economic slowdown in China, Europe is on the verge of another recession. Clearly, the sky is falling. Or is it? Port of Los Angeles Reports Record Traffic for March 2016 Per a recent […]
As your partner in domestic and worldwide transportation, we work hard to provide you with relevant and timely information about significant supply chain and distribution issues. On June 30th, the current 6 year contract between the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the dockworkers represented by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) will expire. All […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In today’s post, we take a brief look at a perennial problem in the ocean freight shipping industry: peak season delays. Per a recent report by Drewry Maritime Research, an increasing amount of ocean cargo from both Asia and Europe is being delayed by late deliveries or rolled bookings as the 2013 peak season continues […]
By: Paige Cotcamp Over the past 29 years, we’ve acquired a great deal of experience importing and exporting all manner of products for companies large and small. We’ve shipped oil to the Middle East, copiers to Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s north slope in the dead of winter and scientific equipment to volcanologists on Iceland. […]
Have you ever scheduled freight for shipment, only to have your forwarder come back and tell you that the “chargeable weight” or “dimensional weight” was three or four times more than the shipment weighed in your warehouse? What the heck is going on here? Is your forwarder some kind of crook? Hopefully not. Odds are, […]
