by Audrey Chaney | Oct 26, 2020 | News & Events
The Mallory Asia-Pacific Team is reporting that nearly all carriers are experiencing varying equipment shortages at major China ports due to a recent surge in cargo. Equipment supply conditions are improving, but are still tight. Below is a recap on the current...
by Audrey Chaney | Oct 26, 2020 | News & Events
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has voted to grant the temporary relief from certain service contract and tariff filing requirements requested by French ocean container carrier CMA CGM. The carrier sought relief from commission regulations earlier this...
by Audrey Chaney | Oct 26, 2020 | News & Events
Another hurricane could affect supply chains and freight flows this week along the Gulf Coast. Capacity in the region could tighten ahead of the storm. Tropical Storm Zeta became the 27th named storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season Sunday. Zeta will likely...
by Audrey Chaney | Oct 23, 2020 | News & Events
US surface transport numbers for September – both for truck and intermodal traffic – show gains that point to a continuing recovery of the economy. This is reinforced by a rise in the CASS Freight Index for last month and by gains in retail sales. The shipment count...
by Audrey Chaney | Oct 19, 2020 | News & Events
The European Union and the U.S. exchanged tariff threats this week after the World Trade Organization, in its ruling over illegal state aid America provided to Boeing Co., gave the EU permission to impose duties on $4 billion worth of U.S. goods. French Finance...
by Audrey Chaney | Oct 19, 2020 | News & Events
US agricultural exporters are demanding shipping lines end frequent changes to earliest return dates (ERD) – the earliest an export container can be delivered to the carrier – which can incur significant extra costs. According to a survey conducted by the US...
by Audrey Chaney | Oct 12, 2020 | News & Events
The average length of haul for requested load tenders has increased 6% or roughly 20 miles since the same period last year. This may not seem like a large jump at first, but with accepted volumes being over 20% higher than this time last year, those miles have a...
by Audrey Chaney | Oct 12, 2020 | News & Events
Indian exporters have slammed shipping lines over the country’s continuing container shortage and soaring freight rates – but carriers say the worsening trade imbalance is to blame. Last week, the Engineering Export Promotion Council of India called on the government...
by Audrey Chaney | Oct 5, 2020 | News & Events
The coronavirus pandemic severely upset the ocean carriers’ schedules during the spring and summer, as they “blanked” sailings to recover costs from diminished container volumes from Asia. However, shippers are concerned that ocean carriers are changing the earliest...
by Audrey Chaney | Oct 5, 2020 | News & Events
The airfreight market will see spikes of demand in Q4, but the “wildfire” rate increases experienced during “PPE season” are unlikely. Online sales are expected to drive airfreight demand more than B2B during the final quarter. Additionally, some exporters think...
