Freight Plus

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Trucking capacity in 2019 is about speed not rates according to industry analysts. Amazon’s safety record scrutinized after Baltimore warehouse tragedy. ELDs have changed the way that carriers score their partners and shippers with long detention times are losing capacity in the form of time, rejected loads, and partnerships.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

APRIL 17, 2019

Environmental Protection Agency holds up a shipment at the port of Baltimore because they are understaffed, it impacts supply chains across the nation. Well, fast-forwarding to the first week of April 2019, a shift in staffing levels at ports of entry across the U.S.-Mexico Current U.S.-Mexico Mexico trade risks.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 9, 2019

Truckload capacity remained tight during the first week of 2019, and national average rates increased 3¢ for vans, reefers and flatbeds. Miami to Baltimore slipped 75¢ to a more-normal $2.13/mile. However, rates declined on many of the highest volume lanes, so increases in the national averages could be temporary.

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Freightos

APRIL 16, 2024

America’s East Coast, alternative ports continue to handle the rerouting away from the Port of Baltimore without reports of significant congestion or with increases in freight rates. These disruptions would also impact container hubs in India some of which are part of services that connect S. Asia and the Middle East.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 12, 2024

As retailers have adjusted to limits on the use of the Panama Canal and the Red Sea, we now face the shutdown of the Port of Baltimore to vessel traffic. Amazon was granted $27 million in property tax breaks for the warehouse over 10 years by North Andover, which approved the project in 2019. The center will employ 1,500 people.

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Freight Plus

JANUARY 31, 2019

Harley Davidson projects trade war tariffs will cost company $120M in 2019. Truckers protest Baltimore port delay times. Similarly, the Chinese economy is growing at its slowest pace in years. However, there are still a number of sticking points that both sides need to share common ground on.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

For the prior ten years, as a city dweller in Philadelphia and Baltimore, I walked everywhere. When the repair estimate was 5X the cost of the car, I wrote the dealer a check and drove off in a 2019 Lincoln Nautilus with 4,200 miles. In 2017, when I moved, I bought an old car. Why do I tell you this story? Let me explain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 19, 2024

Amazon has a long way to go, as the company says its operations emitted about 71 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2022, up by almost 40 percent since Jeff Bezos’s 2019 vow that his company would eventually stop contributing to the emissions warming the planet.

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