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Forwarders warn shippers to expect a second ILA-USMX work stoppage

Ian Putzger Americas correspondent — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:35:04 +0000

There was widespread relief that the work stoppage at US east and Gulf coast ports at the beginning of October was called off after three days. While it has taken some time to clear the congestion at afflicted ports like Savannah, this was nothing like the system-wide paralysis that had been widely predicted if the strike had been allowed to go on.
Beyond the immediate relief of facing a peak season ...

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Warehousing confusion as Amazon cuts space allocations pre-peak

Ian Putzger Americas correspondent — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 11:51:28 +0000

After some easing earlier in the year, warehousing constraints and pricing in the US appear to be headed up again. Some online merchants are having a strange ride into the peak season.
E-commerce sellers using Amazon for distribution are bewildered. A number of blogs indicate that their authors had been led to expect higher storage limits at the giant’s warehouses, only to find those limits cut as they were preparing for ...

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Logistics players expand operations as near-shoring boosts US-Mexico traffic

Alexander Whiteman — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 13:40:32 +0000

North American logistics providers are jockeying for growth in the cross-border traffic between the US and Mexico.
The latest to bolster its strength in the sector is Ryder System, which opened a new warehouse in Laredo this week and completed the expansion of a drayage yard, south of the border in Nuevo Laredo.
Three miles from the World Trade Bridge that links the two countries, Ryder’s 228,000 sq ft warehouse can accommodate ...

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Capacity crunch at Mexico-US border as nearshoring shift boosts freight flows

Gavin van Marle — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 12:00:49 +0000

Congestion at North American ports and rail terminals may have stopped giving cargo owners and logistics providers sleepless nights, but another source of supply chain strain is mounting –the rising tide of nearshoring is beginning to tax capacity and infrastructure.
A casual glance at cargo flows between Mexico and the US reveals the strong pull of nearshoring. In the first quarter Mexico surpassed China as the top source of US imports. ...

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Omni merger prompts Forward Air clients to look for alternative haulage

Alex Lennane — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:02:02 +0000

Forwarders using Forward Air to move their air shipments to and from US airports are looking for alternative carriers in the wake of the company’s merger with Omni Logistics.
The merger of the expedited less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier with Omni was intended to create a combined company worth $3.2bn, with more direct avenues to shippers in order to improve margins, but Forward Air is facing strong opposition from its forwarder customers.
They regard ...

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US forwarders warn peak volume rise will resurrect congestion

Joe Ortiz — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 09:29:11 +0000

US forwarders are complaining of a lack of effort to improve supply chain resilience to prepare for a surge in traffic.
Cargo flows are fairly smooth, but forwarders are concerned that a spike in volumes will overwhelm the system again, and plunge the industry into a repeat of the congestion seen between late 2020 and spring last year.
According to the Institute for Supply Management, supplier delivery performance improved in April for ...

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Cargo shifts back to US west coast ports, but some has gone for good

Joe Ortiz — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 10:43:53 +0000

Beneficial cargo owners have begun to move traffic back to US west coast ports from the east.
The western gateways lost volumes to ports on the east and Gulf coasts after concerns of potential lockdowns or congestion.
The return is driven partly by rising confidence that serious disruptions will not occur, and partly as a result of cost pressure.
The twin gateways of Long Beach and Los Angeles have seen steep drops in ...

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Slower demand, but US warehouse rents rise in ‘tight and expensive’ market

Joe Ortiz — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:31:32 +0000

Demand for warehouse space in the US has been declining – but this has not stopped rents rising.
According to real estate investment trust Prologis, they will increase by 10% this year.
The slowdown in global trade is finally nudging the vacancy rate in the US warehousing market upwards. In the first quarter, the national vacancy rate climbed to 3.5%.
That’s up 50 basis points from the final quarter of 2022 and the ...

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Import gateway shift pushes Houston to the top of port congestion league

Nick Savvides — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 11:47:08 +0000

To avoid the congestion at major west coast gateways, US importers have now clogged up ports elsewhere and, instead of Los Angeles and Long Beach, it’s Houston that now has the biggest problem, according to ITS Logistics.
It’s current US Port/Rail Ramp Freight Index rates operational issues at the US Gulf region’s port as ‘high’, whereas operations on the west coast are normal. Other regions are rated as having ‘moderate’ issues.
Houston’s ...

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Passenger airlines forced to throttle back as tough trading conditions persist

Nick Savvides — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 12:46:22 +0000

The resurgence in belly capacity for air cargo is not going as planned, with crew availability issues and extreme weather forcing US airlines to rein in their schedule expansion plans.
Delta Air Lines is cutting about 100 daily flights from its schedule from 1 July through 7 August, which is about 2% of its scheduled departures. These reductions are made to maintain schedule integrity, as the airline has limited resources to ...

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