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Puerto Rico’s shipments focus on relief, not infrastructure upgrades With a quarter of the island’s residents lacking electrical power, long-term improvements are taking a back seat to rebuilding efforts. Photo credit: Crowley Maritime. Few natural disasters have been as devastating as Hurricane Maria, the Category 5 storm that hit Puerto Rico last September and caused […]

Reinvigorated, carriers thinking anew about shipper services and value creation There is virtually no evidence that the container market is any less competitive, but emerging from a period of unprecedented consolidation, some carriers are beginning to act strategically in their future plans — this for the first time in years. Recent announcements from container carriers indicate business […]

Now outward-focused, carriers have small shippers in sights The Port of Oakland. Photo credit: Shutterstock.com. There is virtually no evidence that the container market is any less competitive, but emerging from a period of unprecedented consolidation, some carriers are beginning to act strategically in their future plans — this for the first time in years. […]

Flexport flights lock in space on busy trans-Pacific route Atlas Air B747-400 freighters will be used in Flexport’s weekly trans-Pacific charter service. Photo credit: Atlas Air. Flexport will launch its first weekly freighter flight between Hong Kong and Los Angeles in April, operating two flights per week as the tech-based forwarder locks in capacity on […]

Choose space over price in 2018, air cargo shippers warned A UPS air cargo flight. Photo credit: Shutterstock. LONG BEACH, California — Book your air freight cargo early and prioritize space over price is the advice from forwarders as the robust demand experienced for much of last year continues into 2018.Data from the International Air […]

Hapag-LLoyd joins CargoSphere’s digital rate-processing system   A Hapag-Lloyd container ship. (Photo credit: Shutterstock. Cargosphere has signed up Hapag-Lloyd as the first carrier to use the technology company’s rate-processing platform, which enables the carrier to translate contract rates and conditions onto real-time prices on its routes around the globe. The platform, called Smart Upload and […]

DB Schenker CEO: Forwarders under threat from game-changing tech LONG BEACH, California — The traditional freght forwarding model is being upended by fast developing supply chain technology, with forwarders, online startups and even carriers in a race to develop integrated end-to-end… DB Schenker CEO: Forwarders under threat from game-changing tech Journal of Commerce

DB Schenker CEO: Forwarders under threat as technology changes the game LONG BEACH — The traditional freght forwarding model is being upended by fast developing supply chain technology, with forwarders, online startups and even carriers in a race to develop integrated end-to-end solutions that not everyone can win. Addressing TPM 2018 in a keynote address, […]

New CMA CGM efforts to boost responsiveness to shippers Mathieu Freidberg, central group director at CMA CGM, addresses the media at the 18th Annual TPM Conference. Photo credit: Caught in the Moment Photography. LONG BEACH, California — CMA CGM wants “to be more than a price tag” and to that end will roll out insurance, […]

TPM 2018 Tracker: News, insights, analysis Jochen Thewes, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Management at DB Schenker, delivers the keynote address at the 18th Annual TPM Conference. (Photo credit: Caught in the Moment Photography.) The latest news and insights from the JOC’s TPM 2018 conference in Long Beach, California….   10:05 a.m.  PST: […]