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Ho Ho No! Port Congestion and Supply Chain Delays Threaten to Disrupt Christmas

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Compounding the shipping stress is the uncertainty about COVID-19, which is still surging in much of Asia. Low vaccination rates throughout Asia are leading authorities to keep social distancing rules and travel bans in place, and these are expected to continue to disrupt manufacturing and logistics, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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Air Freight Explained: Calculating Costs and Price Trends

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Steve Jobs famously purchased the entire available air freight capacity along key Asia-US routes to ship the first iMac prior to holiday season. DHL Global Forwarding actually got started by taking ocean freight documents by air to expedite release along a new West Coast-Hawaii ocean line. Documents and Samples.