Commentary

Warehousing isn’t a new supply chain innovation.

With the U.S. presidential election over, let the hand-wringing begin. Between now and January — less, considering the upcoming holiday breaks — what will a lame-duck Congress accomplish on the numerous and important issues facing it?

When Congress acts to avoid the year-end fiscal cliff threatening the nation’s fragile economic recovery, it should include a solution for an issue that threatens to curtail the country’s ability to maintain competitive ports and diverts import containers away from U.S. ports.

Over the past several years, I’ve had the incredible good fortune to be able to shift the emphasis of my work from its focus on shipping lines, service contracts, delivery deadlines and cargo claims to an entirely different set of new, but related area of businesses.

Politically speaking, this month’s U.S. election appears to leave the country in the same position as before.

Q: Our client has rates based on a frozen level of rates, 1988 specifically.