It looks like the practices of ocean carriers during the pandemic and the resulting record-high freight rates have caught the attention of American and Chinese maritime regulatory [...]
This is a guest post by Josh Darnell. The forward strides being made in the technology used in maritime shipping are coming from two different kinds of necessities: commercial and [...]
While the idea of shipping goods is quite an old one, using containers for their transportation in bulk quantities across the sea is fairly new. Only about six decades ago, an entrepreneur named [...]
While it wasn't anywhere near as big as the devastating blast at the Port of Beirut a few weeks ago, a tragic explosion interrupted a U.S. port at the end of last week. On Friday, a dredging ship [...]
A month ago, Greg Miller reported in an American Shipper article that not only had freight rates finally stopped rising but they also had dropped a bit. He posed the question, "Is this a new [...]
Reporting is starting to come in on the first quarter of the financial year for carriers. Ocean Network Express (ONE), formed a few years ago when Japan's big three ocean carriers – K Line, MOL, [...]
Surcharges aren't only the tools of ocean freight carriers. Rail companies can slap surcharges on cargo movement too. Indeed, U.S. shippers, right now, are seeing surcharges and gate restrictions [...]
The category of personal protective equipment (PPE) covers a broad range of goods and devices. It can refer to anything from gloves to protective clothing, face shields, surgical masks and [...]
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 has been lower than normal by [...]
No-roll premiums? What's that? Hopefully, as a shipper, you've never heard of a no-roll premium. Unfortunately, many shippers are finding out about them right now as they're being forced to [...]
A couple weeks ago, we posted a blog about how ocean freight carriers, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, went from being projected to lose as much as $23 billion in 2020 to looking like [...]
This is a guest post by Darren Hann. Traditionally, managing a supply chain was a simple concept that predominately manufactured identical bulk products and made them available to market. Over [...]
The results are in. Of what, you ask? Of the Federal Maritime Commission's (FMC) "Fact Finding No. 29, International Ocean Transportation Supply Chain Engagement, in order to identify operational [...]
This is a guest post by Darren Hann. Supply chain managers who are eyeing global markets and planning to scale up operations need an efficient freight company to manage their goods, [...]
This is a guest post by Jake Rheude. It may feel like time is meaningless and we’ve lived through 329 Mondays in a row at this point, but for supply chains, this time is more crucial than [...]
Importers and exporters are on their way to getting a stronger voice with the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC). By its own description, the FMC "is the independent federal agency [...]
This is a guest post by Derek Jones. Toilet paper hardly makes the news. But save for handwash and hand sanitizer, no other commercial product better signifies the degree of anxiety the [...]
From when the novel coronavirus outbreak in China first started registering in international shipping news, stories have been published about how ocean freight carriers could or would lose [...]
This is a guest post by Darren Hann. International Commercial Terms (Incoterms®) play a significant role when you are importing or exporting goods in and out of all major cities. Irrespective [...]
The United States Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued rule changes to two sets of export laws and a proposal to change a third. The changes that are now final rules will go into effect [...]