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Commentary: Summer of Discontent
Barry Horowitz |
Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water, the theme music from “Jaws” ramps up in your ears.
Maritime
Commentary: Be Wary of Salvage Deal
Colin Barrett |
Q: We’re a manufacturer of high-end kitchen appliances and face what I think is a very unusual situation regarding a claim.
Maritime
Commentary: Preparing for Capacity Challenges in Mexico
Troy Riley and Jose Minarro |
More and more companies are looking to Mexico as the preferred location for near-sourcing their operations.
Maritime
Trucking News
Rail News
Forwarding
Commentary: The Economy's False Positive
Dan Gardner |
After four years of (mostly) dismal financial performance, the last thing ocean carriers in the trans-Pacific eastbound trade need is to get kicked while they’re down.
Maritime
Container lines
Commentary: TIGER Grants Fall Short for Ports
JOC Staff |
The fourth round of TIGER grants announced last week is another example of economic stimulus that is too little, too late and a missed opportunity to leverage our port assets.
Maritime
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Commentary: Traffic Warnings Low on FMCSA's Checklist
Colin Barrett |
Q: We’re a motor carrier. Our fleet runs 40 percent of its miles in Indiana and Michigan, so-called probable cause states.
Maritime
Trucking News
Commentary: Are Derivatives Gaining Traction?
JOC Staff |
If container shipping today is a commodity, as many argue it is, then freight rate derivatives make intuitive sense.
Maritime
Forwarding
Commentary: A Ho-Hum Peak Season Coming Up
JOC Staff |
Get ready for another boring peak season. If industry analysts are correct, imports from Asia will increase modestly. That means freight rates will remain low, at least for beneficial cargo owners.
Maritime
Forwarding
Commentary: Customs, Importers in a Bind Over Bonds
Susan Kohn Ross |
A surety company that’s a big player in the Customs bond market recently sent a notice reminding customs brokers that an importer with a continuous bond is a higher risk indicator if the agency
Maritime
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Commentary: Liner Job Losses: As Real As It Gets
Gary Ferrulli |
Many of us read with interest the financial results of ocean carriers and wonder, “Wow, how can they keep doing that?” Losing money that is.
Maritime
Container lines
Forwarding
Commentary: Compromise Needed to Ease Port Labor Pains
Colin Barrett |
Q: I’ve been reading about problems in negotiations between East and Gulf Coast port operators and the International Longshoremen’s Association.
Maritime
Re-Tweeting Value Vs. Cost
Peter Tirschwell, Senior VP Strategy |
The container shipping news of the week, from the Tweet Deck of Peter Tirschwell, who follows up with commentary and analysis as he tours Asia. 13 Jun @PeterTirschwell
Maritime
Forwarding
Logistics' Tough Climb
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
The late Bob Delaney, who created the annual State of Logistics report, liked to describe its comparison of business logistics spending to GDP as a batting average for supply chain performance.
Maritime
Logistics, GDP and Rising Costs
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor, Trucking |
The cost of logistics as a percentage of gross domestic product was once the ultimate measure of logistics efficiency. Today, not so much.
Commentary: Absent Authority, Is Rebrokering Illegal?
Colin Barrett |
Q: I read a few months back about your opinion regarding carriers rebrokering shippers’ freight to other carriers.
Trucking News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Natural Gas Changing Transportation Industry
Ted Prince |
In the current season of the AMC hit series “Mad Men,” protagonist Don Draper heads to a Rolling Stones concert in an attempt to use one of their songs in a commercial.
News and Views From JOC Shipping Conference
Peter Tirschwell, Senior VP Strategy |
Below are a few tweets from the JOC Container Shipping Conference last week sent out via Linked In (Twitter is blocked in China), including some expanded commentary.
Maritime
Container lines
Forwarding
ILA May Give Shippers the Summertime Blues
JOC Staff |
If supply chain managers are starting the summer in a cranky mood, it’s easy to see why.
Trucking News
New Route From China?
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
There’s talk about a future container hub in an unlikely place – Reykjavik, Iceland.
Four Times the Brokerage Fun
Colin Barrett |
Q: We’re a broker, and we use another broker for one of our customers, who was an incumbent when we acquired the account.
Trucking News
Truck brokers
The Ups and Downs of the Container Shipping Industry
Barry Horowitz |
We’re never quite sure here in the Pacific Northwest just when summer will arrive — or whether it will at all.
Maritime
The FAPS Flap
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
Debt collectors on the docks are reputed to be aggressive, and there’s a hint of that in the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s dunning of a longtime tenant that’s behind on
Carriers Sense a Return to Black in Near Future
Peter Tirschwell, Senior VP Strategy |
Meetings with several container lines last week in Europe yielded an unexpected takeaway.
Maritime
Container lines
Forwarding
LTL Carriers in It for the Long Haul
Michael D. Scheid |
The less-than-truckload landscape changed in the past couple of decades as mergers, acquisitions and company failures shifted market share.
Trucking News
LTL
On Double-Brokered Loads: The Devil You Know — And Don’t Know
JOC Staff |
Q: I have a question on our liability for a double-brokered load.
Trucking News
Truck brokers
2012 Trans-Pacific Service Contracts Squeeze NVOs
JOC Staff |
Non-vessel-operating common carriers generally have it good: Non- or light-asset based, agile in responding to customers’ needs and often consistently profitable, their presence in the market ha
Maritime
Shipper-Carrier Saber Rattling Continues
Peter T. Leach, Senior Editor |
JOC reporters face a delicate balancing act in covering annual contract talks between ocean shippers and carriers.
Maritime
Forwarding
On Damaged Goods: Salvage a Claim, Not the Wreckage
Colin Barrett |
Q: Your reply to the question about the carrier’s right to pick up damaged goods in the March 19, 2012, issue is unclear to me.
3PLs Finding Success in the RFP Process
Danny Slaton |
We talked with Unyson Logistics’ Art Nourot, vice president of procurement, and Mick Noce, senior vice president of engineered solutions, about their best practices.
Trucking News
LTL
Container Industry at a Crossroads: Reflections of Time and Tide
Gary Ferrulli |
A story in a non-maritime-related publication caught my eye the other day: April 26 marked the 56th anniversary of the sailing of the Ideal X from Newark, N.J., on a trip to Houston with 58 containers
Maritime
Forwarding
Container Shipping Remains Scream-Worthy Investment
Peter T. Leach, Senior Editor |
When Sotheby’s sold “The Scream” on May 2 for a record $119.9 million on behalf of Norwegian shipping heir Petter Olsen, it touched off some random musings of what Edvard Munch&rsquo
Maritime
Forwarding
Improving Productivity Benefits Ports, Carriers and Shippers
Peter Tirschwell, Senior VP Strategy |
In declaring this month that “productivity is the battleground for ports in the future,” APM Terminals couldn’t have nailed the issue more precisely nor sent a clearer marketing mess
Maritime
Container lines
On Container Shipping: The Evolution Continues
Ted Prince |
Recent comments by Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., are being compared to the rants of Sen. Joe McCarthy. President Truman’s Secretary of State Dean Acheson was a frequent target of McCarthy.
Maritime
Forwarding
Re Salvaging Damaged Goods: Watch Out for Lawsuit
Colin Barrett |
Q: As an attorney, I have to take issue with the advice in your April 5 online column (“Salvaging a Damage Claim”) that you gave your correspondent who was having a dispute with a carrier
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Transloading Benefits Driving Growth
Peter Tirschwell |
After watching in recent years as the number of intact containers moving to and from the Port of Tacoma by rail declined as a percentage of the port’s overall international volumes, officials sp
Maritime
Forwarding
On Freight Transportation: Rising Costs, Shifting Modes
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The strength of the economic recovery, at least in terms of U.S. domestic freight, was clear at last week’s NASSTRAC Logistics Conference.
Trucking labor
Dry Van Carriers Lag Other Markets in Revenue Growth
Michael D. Scheid |
2011 was a good year overall for the largest trucking companies, according to the list of Top 50 Trucking Companies.
Trucking News
LTL
On Consultants: Outsourcing Intelligence
Barry Horowitz |
Now that the distractions of March’s TPM container shipping conference are behind us, I can get back to completing what I started with my February column (“Rewards of Risk,” Feb.
Can Long-haul LTL Industry Survive?
James Bisaha |
In the 1980s and 1990s, they ruled the interstate highway system as they crisscrossed the country. You knew their names: Roadway Express, Consolidated Freightways and Yellow Freight.
Trucking News
LTL
Concealed Vs. Hidden Damage
Colin Barrett |
Q: We had a machine delivered to us by a major less-than-truckload carrier that was damaged (an arm near the top of the machine was bent).
Maritime
Forwarding
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