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This Week in Logistics News (September 16 – 22)

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David Ho, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaii, wasn’t buying it. Cargo volumes at the Port of Los Angeles rose 3 percent year-over-year to 828,016 TEUs in August, marking the first increase in 13 months, port officials said. There is no such thing as a carbon-neutral product,” he says. It’s kind of silly.

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

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Cargo begins clogging Port of Los Angeles amid railroad worker shortage. According to a FedEx spokesperson, adding more robotics to its operations could help improve the safety and efficiency of FedEx package handling operations globally. As a result, cargo is clogging the ports of Los Angeles amid a railroad worker shortage.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 10 – 16)

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Mechatronics has been building technology to move and stack heavy pallets and totes, and robotics used to package products for customer orders. A rise in cargo volumes and idling empty containers led the port to propose a dwell fee in August in hopes it would speed throughput. Last year’s cutoff was set at December 9.

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Air Freight Explained: Calculating Costs and Price Trends

Freightos

Air cargo is used by global importers and exporters when they need to get goods somewhere rapidly and reliably. 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. Why Ship Cargo by Air? Documents and Samples.

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

Intelligent Audit

per package for large packages or $250.00 for oversize UPS packages and $350 for oversize FedEx packages. per package based on February 2020 volume for FedEx. per package. including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the U.S. To date, current rate increases for GRIs and surcharges range from $1.15

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This Week in Logistics News (October 22 – 28)

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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. The online retail giant currently has more than 3,000 electric vans delivering packages to customers in Europe.