<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>The cost of missing online shopping or Christmas deadlines is mounting for air cargo shippers forced out of the congested ocean markets. 
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The cost of missing online shopping or Christmas deadlines is mounting for air cargo shippers forced out of the congested ocean markets.

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<div><p>Growing desperation to get products on US shelves in time for the November online shopping season and end-of-year holidays is driving up aircraft charter costs, with shippers having to pay up to $2 million for a trans-Pacific freighter. </p><p>“The rates...

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<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>Forwarder sources say the lead services operated by European carriers are already sold out through the end of the month or even until early September on certain sailings. </p></div>

Forwarder sources say the lead services operated by European carriers are already sold out through the end of the month or even until early September on certain sailings.

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<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>While North American shippers remained satisfied overall in H1, they noticed the effects of the intermodal volume surge through slower train speeds, less reliable pickup and delivery schedules, and more tender rejections, according to the Intermodal Service Scorecard. </p></div>

While North American shippers remained satisfied overall in H1, they noticed the effects of the intermodal volume surge through slower train speeds, less reliable pickup and delivery schedules, and more tender rejections, according to the Intermodal Service Scorecard.

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<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>The accelerating use of short-term, targeted contracts underscores the need to fill widening capacity gaps in shipper distribution networks as trucking rates climb higher.</p></div>

The accelerating use of short-term, targeted contracts underscores the need to fill widening capacity gaps in shipper distribution networks as trucking rates climb higher.

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<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>New rules on low-value European imports are already changing market behavior, but the full impact on volume has yet to be measured just one month after the elimination of the de minimis exemption.</p></div>

New rules on low-value European imports are already changing market behavior, but the full impact on volume has yet to be measured just one month after the elimination of the de minimis exemption.

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<div class="phx-topic abstract-wrapper"><p>Each gigawatt of US data center expansion requires 100,000 truckloads, and experts question whether existing truck capacity is sufficient to meet the construction demand.</p></div>

Each gigawatt of US data center expansion requires 100,000 truckloads, and experts question whether existing truck capacity is sufficient to meet the construction demand.

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