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Buoyed by six straight months of historic volumes, the Port of Long Beach is on course to reach 9.6 million cargo containers by the end of 2024 without congestion or other disruption and exceeding the previous record set during the pandemic in 2021.The Port of Long Beach also achieved its busiest November, when dockworkers and terminal operators moved 884,154 twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, up 20.9 percent from the same ...
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OUTLOOK Report from Magaya
The global logistics industry may soon be faced with further disruption as U.S trade policy transitions to President-elect Trump and a new Congress in January.Already, announcements of proposed tariffs and regulatory shifts are causing concern about their impact to global supply chains, ...
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DAT Freight & Analytics, which operates DAT One, the truckload freight marketplace, and DAT iQ, the freight data analytics service, said Dec. 17 that it acquired Trucker Tools, a carrier-forward capacity sourcing and load-tracking solution.DAT, the Beaverton, Oregon-based business unit of Roper Technologies, said the ...
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U.S. retail sales showed moderate growth continuing in November ahead of the holiday season’s busiest shopping days, according to the CNBC/NRF Retail Monitor, which the National Retail Federation released Dec. 10.Total retail sales, excluding automobiles and gasoline, were up 0.15 percent seasonally adjusted month over ...
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Some 270 business organizations, in a letter asked the International Longshoremen’s Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance Ltd. to resume contract talks in hopes of avoiding another strike at the 36 ports on the East and Gulf coasts.The two sides were to have met four ...
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Sustainability has become a strategic imperative for small and medium-sized enterprises, or SMEs, significantly influencing their long-term value and credibility, according to an international survey from DHL Express.DHL Express has published an eBook, Sustainability Matters: DHL Express’ Global Survey on Small Businesses, based on in-depth ...
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The Port of Brownsville celebrated the kick-off of the second phase of the Brazos Island Harbor Channel Improvement projects.The Brownsville Navigation District (BND) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, or USACE, held a groundbreaking ceremony on Dec. 6 for the project, which will deepen ...
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French ocean carrier CMA CGM has announced peak season surcharges, effective Jan. 1 from European ports to U.S. and Canadian ports and inland destinations.For all cargoes except out-of-gauge, or OOG, and before breaking bulk, or BBB, the surcharge will be US$250 per 20-foot containers and ...
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Global logistics provider GEODIS announce its new strategic plan, Ambition 2027, to project the group into the future, while building on its achievements and continuing to focus on providing customers “innovative, sustainable and ethical logistics.”A continuation of the previous plan covering the period from 2018 ...
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Descartes Systems Group, the Canadian software-as-a-service solutions provider, report strong results for its fiscal third quarter ended Oct. 31, as it assimilates two acquisitions from the previous quarter.Revenue for the quarter ended Oct. 31, was US$168.8 million, up 3 percent from the third quarter of ...
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