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Air Freight Explained: Calculating Costs and Price Trends

Freightos

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. Security surcharges.

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

Logistics Viewpoints

I read earlier this week that Hershey said it would fall short of meeting demand for the Halloween and Christmas holiday seasons this year, blaming a scarcity of raw ingredients and difficulties in securing suppliers. The goal of the tariff is to reduce an excess of empty containers dwelling at the port and free up space for container pickup.

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How did that Christmas tree get here?

DAT Solutions

So we asked Carl Johnson, President of Pac West Transport Services , a freight brokerage located in Portland, Oregon. Christmas trees are often cut and moved by helicopter to small trucks that transport them to a staging area for loading onto big rigs. They have to be transported to their destination, and delays are not an option.

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