After a devastating winter that left rail lines and supply chains disrupted, shippers are about to take another setback as 3,400 rail engineers and conductors from Canadian Pacific (CP) walk out on strike this Saturday, April 21st, at 12:01am. Frustration mounted as labor unions went into negotiations after disspointing first [...]
After two weeks of heavy fog covering Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta area, visibility is finally clearing up. Operations at both WaiGao Qioa & Yangshan terminals in Shanghai are gradually resuming after almost 1,550 barges and ships have been delayed due to the weather. The Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration [...]
As the first quarter comes to a close, airfreight capacity is becoming strained in some fast-growing, region-specific markets. Similar to the issues shippers are experiencing at U.S. ports, air carriers are struggling to position equipment on imbalanced trade lanes to meet increasing demands of ecommerce and industries such as pharmaceuticals. [...]
It’s a trucker’s market in the U.S. as shippers levy tenured relationships and throw around their freight weight to push for containers to be picked up at congested ports, amidst a driver shortage and under new legislative time restrictions. Chassis availability and equipment positioning issues have further strained the domestic [...]
Economies hang in the balance as China and the United States begin a tit-for-tat dance on the international stage over technology and international property rights. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) published the list of approximately 1,300 proposed products imported from China that may be subject to additional [...]
On Monday, April 2, 2018, China announced import duties on U.S. goods such as pork, fruit, nuts, wine, ginseng, aluminum, ethanol and pipes. Responding within World Trade Organization (WTO) guidelines, the retaliatory measure by the United States’ largest trading partner comes as a swift response to Washington’s March 8thexecutive order [...]
On Wednesday, March 23rd, the U.S. approved passage of $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill that would keep the government operating through September. Passing in both Senate and House, the bill included extension of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) through December 31, 2020. A relief for many importers, who’ve been [...]
After a seven-month investigation by U.S. Trade Representatives into China’s unfair trade practices, the U.S. signed an executive order imposing retaliatory import tariffs on $60 billion worth of Chinese imports. Covering 1,300 product lines, the final list of targeted products will be published 15 days after the Thursday announcement and [...]
Weeks after 76 containers fell off a cargo ship off of the North Carolina coast, the Coast Guard is still warning mariners to look out for missing containers from March 4th incident. Deemed hazardous due to toxic materials and overall size of the containers floating, shippers are once again reminded [...]
While the southern states experience their first week of pollen, the North East just can’t catch a break as it hunkers down for the fourth winter storm of the month. Expected to bring strong winds, tree damage, and power outages, Winter Storm Toby may be the heaviest snowstorm of the [...]
