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  • No clear link between slow-steaming, schedule reliability: analyst
  • Weaker ocean rates, China sourcing shift drive rise in LCL shipments
  • New UP intermodal service from Houston to provide West Coast reach
  • Hong Kong struggles to recover volumes lost amid South China cargo shift
  • CPKC adds new reefer containers to Mexico-US service
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No clear link between slow-steaming, schedule reliability: analyst

Slow-steaming has come to the fore of late as ocean carriers seek help in absorbing overcapacity, but analyst Lars Jensen says the common refrain that slower speeds also help to improve schedule reliability doesn’t hold water.

Weaker ocean rates, China sourcing shift drive rise in LCL shipments

An emerging trend of sending smaller shipments more frequently is leading to growing demand for LCL services across the major trade lanes.

New UP intermodal service from Houston to provide West Coast reach

Union Pacific’s launch of direct intermodal service from Houston comes two weeks after competitor BNSF announced it would begin a new service from the port’s Barbours Cut marine terminal.

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