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Tensions in long-running contract talks at West Coast ports are worsening, with employers accusing unionized dockworkers of slowing cargo handling at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation’s busiest gateway for imported consumer goods. The sharp rhetoric […]

A 9.7 percent drop in the long-distance US truckload producer price index (PPI) in the first two months of 2023 shows shippers are winning rate concessions from motor carriers that are rolling back some, although not all, of the surface […]

Despite much hand-wringing to the contrary over the past three years, the end of globalization is nowhere near nigh. The 10th annual DHL Global Connectedness Index, released Wednesday by Deutsche Post DHL Group (OTCUS: DPSGY) and New York University’s Stern School of Business, […]

Maersk will begin billing container detention charges directly to consignees on so-called merchant haulage moves from April 1 in a move that portends evolving invoicing practices related to potential new requirements from the US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC). “With the FMC’s […]

Mexico starts 2023 as top U.S. trade partner Mexico ranked as the United States’ top trading partner for the second consecutive month in January, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Mexico’s total trade with the U.S. increased […]

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.  […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Global airfreight weakness has worsened to start 2023 in the face of a global economic slowdown and the lack of a typical bounce around the Chinese New Year holiday. But there is cautious optimism that cross-border trade and demand for […]