Harvest season for summer fruits and other crops is in full swing, yet California agricultural exporters fear that continued delays at West Coast ports could lead to more products perishing before reaching their destination. This inevitably frustrates customers who will likely look for other ways to satisfy orders if conditions [...]
Ground service providers are responding to the enormous bottleneck at Chicago O'Hare by permanently transferring some warehouse operations outside the property, thereby expanding capacity. Adding supplemental facilities further away from the airport goes against the conventional business paradigm of processing loads close to the plane to allow for quick handoffs, [...]
A U.S. shipper group sent a letter to Congress urging them for more oversight of ocean transportation in a letter to Congress on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. The group said the current system has caused severe delays and cost importers and exporters. The National Industrial Transportation League (NITL) has proposed [...]
