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Why Thinking ?Global, Yet Local? Makes Sense in Your Air Freight Strategy

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If you utilize air freight to the Oceania region (Australia and New Zealand), you can certainly use our expertise to minimize the impact of market forces and streamline the flow of air-cargo to work in your favor. Over the past few years, we have seen many impacting factors on the air cargo market. Peak seasons have returned.

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Snapshot of 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Part Four

Supply Chain Matters

In this update, we focus on our fifth prediction which is focused on global transportation and logistics services sectors. 2023 Prediction Five: Global Wide Transportation, Logistics and Brokerage Services Sectors Will Face a Challenging Year With Significant Consequences. Global trade forecasts point to slowing to 1.1

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How Does the Chinese New Year Impact Rate Volatility?

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million TEUs recorded in December 2009—however, there was a surge in scrapping older tonnage to keep that from coming into fruition. The idle ship capacity soared from 230,000 TEUs at the beginning of 2015 to 1.36 million TEUs by December. The unused fleet was expected to top the all-time high of 1.5