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    Monthly Archive for: "August, 2021"
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     Dollar Tree Exemplifies Losses Shippers Facing & Solutions
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    By Jared Vineyard
    In business tips, freight rates, importing, International Shipping, ocean freight rates, shippers
    Posted August 31, 2021

    Dollar Tree Exemplifies Losses Shippers Facing & Solutions

    It feels like we've been talking about the international shipping industry's sky-high freight rates non-stop for the last year and a half. With freight rates breaking record after record over [...]

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     3 Ways To Protect Your Supply Chain from Likely ILWU Port Disruption
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    By Jared Vineyard
    In container ports, export, exporters, exports, ILWU, ILWU Contract Negotiation, importers, importing, Imports, International Shipping, PMA
    Posted August 26, 2021

    3 Ways To Protect Your Supply Chain from Likely ILWU Port Disruption

    In the last blog we talked about the very likely scenario that, with the master contract for the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) expiring in less than a year, contract [...]

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     ILWU & PMA Likely Heading for Fight that Will Cost Shippers
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    By Jared Vineyard
    In exporters, ILWU, ILWU contract, ILWU Contract Negotiation, ILWU contract negotiations, ILWU Negotiations, importers, PMA, port congestion, shippers
    Posted August 24, 2021

    ILWU & PMA Likely Heading for Fight that Will Cost Shippers

    Their supply chains shaking and rattling, shippers wake up in cold sweats. If not dark, the horizon is hazy, impossible to see what lies ahead. But shippers know there's a contract expiration out [...]

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     Updates on the Port of Ningbo Terminal Closure
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    By Jared Vineyard
    In China, Import from China, importing, International Shipping, ports, shippers, shipping ports
    Posted August 19, 2021

    Updates on the Port of Ningbo Terminal Closure

    The Port of Ningbo – the third busiest container port in the world – was supposedly going to start a phased reopening yesterday (Wednesday, August 18th) after its Meidong Container Terminal [also [...]

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     The World’s Most Bizarre Exports
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    By Universal Cargo
    In export, exports, goods, import, importing, international business, International Shipping
    Posted August 17, 2021

    The World’s Most Bizarre Exports

    This is a guest post by Timothy Clark. When you think about a country's top export, what comes to your mind? It probably creates and connects mental images of Italy and pasta, Belgium and [...]

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     Single COVID Case Shuts Down Major Chinese Port Terminal
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    By Jared Vineyard
    In China, import, importing, International Shipping, peak season, Port, ports
    Posted August 12, 2021

    Single COVID Case Shuts Down Major Chinese Port Terminal

    Chinese authorities shut down a terminal at the third busiest container port in the world after a single positive COVID test. Yesterday, Eric Kulisch reported in American Shipper: Chinese [...]

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     Is the Government Going After Carrier Alliances?
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    By Jared Vineyard
    In carrier alliances, carriers, export, exporters, freight rates, importing, International Shipping, ocean freight, ocean freight rates, ocean shipping
    Posted August 10, 2021

    Is the Government Going After Carrier Alliances?

    Today, we continue our look at governmental pressure on the international shipping industry. Having watched carrier competition shrink over the last decade until reaching the point we're at now, [...]

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     Could Biden’s Executive Order Endanger Carrier Alliances?
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    By Jared Vineyard
    In carrier alliances, carriers, exporters, importers, International Shipping, President Biden
    Posted August 5, 2021

    Could Biden’s Executive Order Endanger Carrier Alliances?

    A couple blogs ago, I wrote about three ways ocean freight rates could see a significant drop. One of those ways was if regulators break up the carrier alliances that now dominate international [...]

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     U.S. Importer Files Carrier Collusion Complaint with FMC
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    By Jared Vineyard
    In antitrust,, carriers, China Cosco Shipping Corporation, freight rates, International Shipping, MSC, shippers, shipping
    Posted August 3, 2021

    U.S. Importer Files Carrier Collusion Complaint with FMC

    While shippers have been complaining and accusing ocean freight carriers of profiteering and unfair practices since the pandemic hit (and for years before that as well), there have not been major [...]

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