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24
Aug
SAVE TIME AND MONEY WITH A TMS SYSTEM
There are many benefits of TMS that manufacturers, distribution companies, and anyone who ships freight realize. They go often way beyond just the cost of shipping freight. If you can look at your freight and transportation department as more than […]
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22
Aug
Fewer Vessels on the Asia to Europe Route
Lower growth in China and a poor Eurozone economy has caused many major shipping lines to slash the number of sailings on the world’s busiest route between Asia and Europe. The peak season for container shipping is normally late summer […]
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21
Jul
Proposal To Lower The Age Limit For CDL Drivers
The dwindling supply of truck driver workforce is becoming an increasingly larger problem for the freight transportation industry. This is in fact a much more significant problem than most realize. There has been a fair amount of discussion in recent […]
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09
Jul
STAYING POWER
“Staying Power”, Consistency in a Logistics Service Provider. The landscape of the current logistics marketplace has changed quite dramatically over the last few years. Carriers are under more pressure to make up for lost revenues/profits during the recession back in […]
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20
Apr
Panama Canal Expansion leads US Ports to Modernize
The $5.25 billion expansion of the Panama Canal — a historic 48-mile waterway which cuts a path between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans— has been set back by delays and has also seen overspending. It’s currently scheduled opening of April 2016 […]
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04
Mar
Cargo diverted from West Coast ports may not return
Over the past few months as congestion and delays grew at West Coast ports, shippers using the West Coast ports began to divert more and more cargo to the East Coast ports in anticipation of a possible port strike and […]
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27
Feb
Eastbound Pacific carriers seek double GRIs to recover from congestion
To recover from congestion, ocean carriers seek double GRI’s On Wednesday, shipping lines in the eastbound pacific announced their intentions to raise ocean freight rates $600 per FEU (forty-foot equivalent unit) on March 9th, and also announced an additional $600 […]
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17
Feb
Labor Secretary sent to West Coast for Port Negotiations
The White House announced last Saturday that they would intervene to seek an end to a labor dispute which has led to costly delays in West Coast shipping. U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez was sent on Monday to San […]
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27
Jan
Progress in West Coast Port Talks
The Pacific Maritime Association said Monday afternoon that a “tentative agreement was reached on the chassis topic” with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union during contract talks on Sunday. A spokesman for the employer group Pacific Maritime Assn., also said […]
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22
Jan
The DOT Has Granted Mexican Trucks Full Access to the US
In the most recent LTL Freight controversies, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) conducted a pilot program between October 14, 2011, and October 10, 2014, that was part of FMCSA’s implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). […]
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