The peak season continues to be strong, especially for transpacific ocean freight shipping. And surprise, surprise, equipment shortages are reported to have come with the strong peak [...]
If you go on Facebook and scroll through, you'll probably find a lot of people bemoaning 2020 as a terrible year. For ocean freight carriers, on the other hand, 2020 has been one of the greatest [...]
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, [...]
This is a guest post by David Madden.
Few things will disrupt your supply chain operations like a global pandemic. Unlike a natural disaster and other public health emergencies, pandemics are [...]
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 [...]
The apparent cyber attack on MSC spotlights the increased risk of fraud, cyber attack, and cargo theft during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the middle of all this highly increased working remotely [...]