Ocean freight rates have been high in 2020. Extremely high. Ocean carriers have managed to hike freight rates in the middle of a global crisis when demand ...
A month ago, Greg Miller reported in an American Shipper article that not only had freight rates finally stopped rising but they also dropped a bit. He ...
International shipping in 2021 continues right where 2020 left off. That sentence sounds obvious, but what it means is an abnormal start to the year when ...
It’s early to talk about the 2021 peak season for the international shipping industry; however, with severe congestion at U.S. ports expected to last at ...
I made a prediction in Tuesday’s blog post about this year’s peak season. That post wasn’t actually about predicting what will happen with international ...
The Journal of Commerce (JOC) published a very interesting article by Larry Gross. Gross is president and founder of Gross Transportation Consulting and ...
It’s a classic case of good news, bad news. After Tuesday’s bad news blog about Yantian Port’s partial shutdown lingering and creating a ...
A couple months ago, we blogged about carriers making billions with these high freight rates shippers are being forced to choke down. Well, that was ...
Chinese authorities shut down a terminal at the third busiest container port in the world after a single positive COVID test. Yesterday, Eric Kulisch ...
When will it end? There are plenty of things people could be saying that about nowadays, but for U.S. shippers, unbelievably high freight rates; terribly ...
Last week, we blogged about California’s Assembly Bill 5, also known as AB 5 and the gig worker bill. After the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear ...