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Ocean carriers are&nbsp;aggressively preventing software vendors and third-party logistics providers (3PLs) from scraping container milestone data from their websites as demand for visibility continues to grow.&nbsp; A number of visibility and shipment management software vendors told the Journal of Commerce that carriers are seeking to make it harder for those vendors to web scrape for status information, forcing vendors to create direct feeds with carriers or use carriers’ application programming interfaces (APIs). &nbsp; “Most of the carriers use some form of anti-bot managers,” Akshay Dodeja, CEO of visibility provider Terminal49, told the Journal of Commerce. Those anti-bot programs, such as...

A proliferation of visibility vendors amid increased demand for container status events is putting pressure on the websites of carriers to support multiple requests for the same data.

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Rising airline costs and increasing air cargo demand over the last three months have largely insulated rate levels against a steady and significant increase in available air freight capacity.

A significant misalignment in ETS surcharges among ocean carriers can be expected if the per-FEU levies already announced by Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd are any indication, according to Sea-Intelligence Maritime Analysis.

Cross-border trade with Mexico is one of the few hot spots in trucking, but fuel prices and other costs are putting more pressure on rates.

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