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Air Freight Explained: Calculating Costs and Price Trends

Freightos

While 90% of everything is shipped by ocean, air connects the world faster, cutting China-US freight shipping time from 20-30 days by ocean to only 3 days by air cargo. Speed – Think five days from a factory in China to a warehouse in the United States. Why Ship Cargo by Air? Why Not to Ship Cargo by Air? Seasonal shipments.

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

Resilinc

The extreme port congestion and container shortages that drastically reduced shipping out of Southern China last month have eased, but as freight volumes from Yantian and other Pearl River Delta ports recover, the rebound will send another wave of disruptions through the troubled global shipping network, according to American Shipper.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 30 – August 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

US considers crackdown on memory chip makers in China. Samsung has two big factories in China while SK Hynix Inc is buying Intel Corp’s NAND flash memory chips manufacturing business in China. chipmaking equipment to factories in China that manufacture advanced NAND chips. Apparently, warehouses are full.