Sustained high demand, diminished capacity, COVID-safe work practices and apparent labour shortages continue to place immense pressure on global air freight hubs, creating congestion at multiple airports around the world. UK freight agent Metro Shipping said that, “while there are different situations at different airports, the...
As you may be aware, authorities in the U.S. proposed in the last week of October to introduce new emergency fees on cargo stuck on the terminal at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, as part of Federal efforts to alleviate the severe...
Traffic Backs Up along the Yangtze as Pilots Are Required to Quarantine Traffic along the Yangtze, China’s longest river and a massive source of cargoes both domestically and for export, is worsening. According to analysts at Singapore’s Eastport Research, traffic has been backing up at ports near...
Global port congestion and backlogs continue to play havoc on liner schedules. According to new data from Sea-Intelligence schedule reliability remains at the low end of the range seen in 2021. In September, two out ever three vessels were behind schedule with the number of...
National Shippers Advisory Council convenes, members bash LA/LB plan...
Suppliers in Vietnam Are Facing a Worker Shortage, Leading to Cancelled Orders Despite the Economy's Reopening Vietnam may have ended one of its longest lockdowns in the pandemic era on Oct. 1, but supply chains are still reeling from the effects. Four months of increasing restrictions meant to...
Costs are not just about rates. As service quality plummets, effective inflation goes even higher ...
Typhoon Kompasu has resulted in the worst container shipping traffic jam in months, one that now stretches throughout Southeast Asia and may take weeks to unravel. Although port operations are largely back to normal in Shenzhen and Hong Kong after the tropical storm’s passing, the total...
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About 18,000 of Canada’s truck driving jobs were vacant in the second quarter of 2021, leaving 72% of surveyed employers to identify driver recruitment as a significant business challenge. The results emerged Tuesday with the release of Trucking HR Canada’s latest labor market information update. While the...
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