Material Handling & Logistics

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

A TEU is one 20-foot-long cargo container or its equivalent. That compares with 2016’s 3.1% from the same period in 2016. over 2016 and that this year’s holiday sales will grow between 3.6 This has turned out to be a boom year for growth in import cargo volume,” says Ben Hackett, founder of Hackett Associates.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Port Houston Container Terminals to Resume Operations Friday (WSJ – sub. TSA reviewing cargo screening, concerned about terror vulnerabilities (CNN). The rains and winds of Tropical Storm Harvey are over, but the impact of the storm on the residents of Houston and the surrounding areas will continue for some time.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 10, 2017

over August 2016. A TEU is one 20-foot-long cargo container or its equivalent. That compares with 2016’s 3.1% from the same period in 2016. over 2016 and that this year’s holiday sales will grow between 3.6% million TEUs set just one month earlier in July. The record before that had been 1.73 August was up 1.4%

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2016

26 April 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the Ideal X and the birth of modern container shipping, a development that played a critical role in spurring the global economy. Break-bulk loaded cargo was poorly secured required a Tetris-like approach to handle diverse sizes of packages. Significance. Significance.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

April 26, 2016 (today) marks the 60th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the Ideal X and the birth of modern container shipping, a development that played a critical role in spurring the global economy. Break-bulk loaded cargo was poorly secured required a Tetris-like approach to handle diverse sizes of packages. Significance.

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TMC

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The enlarged waterway opened in June 2016, and is capable of handling container ships up to 13,000 TEU’s in size. Deciding whether to ship cargo via the U.S. East Coast or West Coast, for instance, requires shippers to weigh various factors such as the type of cargo, the required transit time, and the potential cost savings.

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Elementum

MAY 13, 2015

As recently as Fall of 2014, the Lorenzo Cardenas-Houston route handled an average of only 10-20 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) a week. In a survey of shippers conducted by JOC earlier this year, less than 1% of responders said they planned on shifting cargo away from U.S. West Coast ports to Mexican ports by 2016.

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