Freight Waves

JUNE 17, 2025

Amazon’s private cargo airline, created to expedite online deliveries, has launched its first dedicated South American route with the help of two other carriers: 21 Air, a small U.S. freight operator, and Avianca, a major Latin American airline with a strong cargo arm. Miami is the largest U.S. gateway for fresh flowers.

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Elementum

MAY 1, 2018

Transport network disruption. Following the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, drug manufacturing plants were faced with production delays, fueling nationwide shortages of basic medicines. Potential Sources of Disruption. Unplanned IT or telecommunications outage. Cyberattack and data breach. Weather event.

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Elementum

MAY 1, 2018

Transport network disruption. Following the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, drug manufacturing plants were faced with production delays, fueling nationwide shortages of basic medicines. Potential Sources of Disruption. Unplanned IT or telecommunications outage. Cyberattack and data breach. Weather event.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Diverting resources to fix Model 3 bottlenecks & increase battery production for Puerto Rico & other affected areas. It’s tangible evidence of Elon Musk, the brains behind PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, and more, transportation infrastructure play, with the power to disrupt both domestic trucking and international freight.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

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. In turn, wages must increase, and carriers are inevitably spending more money to complete transport.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 14, 2013

Supreme Court rules in favor of ATA in challenge of Port of Los Angeles Clean Truck Program ( Cargo Business ). Transport Reaches for the Sun ( Wall Street Journal ). Speaking of transportation, the Freight TSI Index fell 1.2 UPS Bulks Up in China ( Wall Street Journal ). Here are some excerpts from the press release: FAM 2.0

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Freight Center

MAY 31, 2019

While different modes of road transport will have differing rates—whether you decide to ship less-than-truckload (LTL), partial truckload (PTL), or full truckload (FTL)—some factors that affect freight costs overlap. Rates will differ from road, rail , ocean , and air transport. Puerto Rico. Fuel surcharges. California.

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