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This Week in Logistics News (October 22 – 28)

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California, Mexico sign historic toll- sharing pact for Otay Mesa East Port. Earlier this week, Amazon and Hawaiian Airlines announced that the retail giant will use Hawaiian Airlines to fly its first Airbus freighters on primary cargo routes and to Hawaii beginning in the second half of 2023. decline in the volume of packages.

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Doing Business in the United States

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The last two states added were Alaska and Hawaii in 1959. It is bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The climate is mostly temperate, but Alaska is arctic, Florida and Hawaii are tropical, and the Great Plains are mostly arid or semi-arid. Cargo transportation in the U.S. billion mt-km in 2015.

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What Are General Rate Increases in Shipping & What Should Enterprises Know?

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In modern freight transportation services, GRI stands for General Rate Increase. On the other side of the coin is the well-known freight transport surcharge. including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the U.S. and Mexico.”. In turn, wages must increase, and carriers are inevitably spending more money to complete transport.