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03
Mar
New U.S. Customs Anti-Forced Labor Tool Will Require Submission Of Chinese Supplier Postal Codes
Xinjiang Province Postal Codes Will Trigger Forced Labor “Warning Message” On January 26, 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) provided more detail on its imminent implementation of another tool to detect potential forced labor imports into the United States. […]
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27
Feb
Idle domestic containers being stacked as intermodal volumes tumble
North American railroads are continuing to struggle to win domestic intermodal business from shippers, with volumes falling sequentially in eight out of the last 10 months, according to the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA). Preliminary data for February indicates […]
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23
Feb
US truck tonnage levels better than expected in January
US for-hire truck tonnage is slipping from month to month, but remains higher than expected in a freight recession, according to the latest data from the American Trucking Associations (ATA). The non-seasonally adjusted ATA For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index dropped 0.4 […]
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14
Feb
The 7 R’s of Supply Chain Management
Supply chain management establishes the strategies with which a supply chain will be overseen as well as dictating the way in which tasks are discovered and remedied. In supply chain management, there is a concept known as the 7R’s… The […]
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11
Jan
Final pockets of congestion on East and Gulf coasts nearly gone
What a difference a year makes. At this time in 2022, over 100 container ships were stuck waiting off the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, with around 150 off all North American ports combined. Now, there are almost no […]
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18
Nov
Historic storm is bearing down on western New York state, bringing treacherous snowfall that could damage infrastructure
Thursday’s heavy snowfall that has pounded parts of western New York state will persist into Friday, when the worst of the potentially historic storm may cause trees to topple and property damage. “The snowfall will produce near zero visibility, difficult […]
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20
Sep
Freight Bill vs. Bill Of Lading
To capture the most value from your logistics department, it is important you know the terminology from the industry. No matter what kind of enterprise you represent (manufacturing, distribution, any company that ships freight), freight bills and bills of lading are […]
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15
Sep
Transport strikes put supply chains under duress again
The White House said Thursday it had reached a tentative agreement to avoid a potential railway strike that threatened to shut down a crucial vein of the U.S. economy. President Biden said the tentative deal “is an important win for our economy […]
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03
Sep
Shippers’ revenge is coming for truckload carriers
The freight market is a pendulum — and when it swings, it may be the buyers or sellers of capacity that now have the power in rate negotiations. Ever since the summer of 2020, trucking companies have largely held all […]
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16
Aug
What is a Bill of Lading?
As a shipper, it’s important to know the difference between a freight bill and bill of lading (BOL) for the purposes of effective shipping logistics. They are two terms that are often confused. Not knowing the proper definitions and applications can have […]
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