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Ready For the Next Port Crisis?

Talking Logistics

“This dispute has left a damaging effect on our industry—causing extreme delays and millions in lost sales,” the American Apparel & Footwear Association said, as reported in the WSJ. “If ports lags those in Asia and Europe. If our ports aren’t open, we can’t trade. We cannot let this happen again. Productivity at U.S.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

These routes are typically found connecting important marketplaces with active commercial trade systems, such as Western Europe, North America, and East Asia. This is due in part to the chokepoints they cause in the flow of global freight as well as the fact that they give people access to resources and commercial activity more effectively.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Many metrics can be used to determine the top 3PL warehousing companies, such as company revenue, the number of warehouses, total warehouse square footage , etc. This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Kuehne + Nagel Inc.

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What is the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) & How Could It & the Trans-Pacific Partnership Impact Manufacturing?

GlobalTranz

The TPA began with the Trade Act of 1974, and it was expanded once more in 2002. From television media reports to internet-based broadcasts of public disapproval of the manufacturing industry’s involvement in overseas production, consumers may be unwilling to purchase such goods.