Grim Market Assessment for U.S. Trucking and Shippers
Trucking operators are expected to face bearish market conditions through the first half of this year, according to Uber Freight’s first-quarter update […]
SC Ports turns to TRAC, Flexi-Van to help launch chassis pool
The South Carolina Ports Authority has been forced to lease 5,000 chassis from providers Flexi-Van Leasing and TRAC Intermodal ahead of the March […]
Medium-sized Ocean Carriers Reshuffle in Shifting Market
Medium-sized carriers on Alphaliner’s top-30 list have seen a shake-up in positions in the last 12 months, with capacity changes ranging from […]
USA Fr8lead Advisory: LCL Export & Import Terminal Closures
Please be advised that the following terminals will be CLOSED on Monday, February 20th, 2023, in observance of President’s Day. GCT (Global […]
Container leasing market slows amid ocean sector cooling: Textainer
The container leasing market is expected to normalize through the first half of the year as shipping lines find their current fleets […]
Scheduled Capacity Registers Sharp Drop
Ocean carriers have reduced scheduled capacity on Asia-North America West Coast (NAWC) by -18% to rebalance capacity to demand, returning it back […]
NY-NJ marine terminals offering up more data to improve truck flow
APM Terminals is the latest terminal operator at the Port of New York and New Jersey to address one of the banes […]
Cost Hinders U.S. Supply Chain Reshoring
With reshoring decisions dictated by costs and logistics factors, U.S. manufacturers are unlikely to shift manufacturing operations out of East Asia in […]
New Year Brings New Challenges for the Container Market
Drewry’s WCI Asia-North Europe index recorded a 10% increase in the spot rate reading from pre-Christmas levels yet, export demand to North […]
Pricing discipline’ to temper US LTL rate relief in 2023
The big picture: The past two years have been called a “golden age” for US less-than-truckload (LTL) operators, but shippers would describe the […]
Falling imports mute capacity impact of California’s new clean-fleet drayage rule
Drayage operators working the ports of Los Angeles-Long Beach and Oakland are entering 2023 facing a new clean-truck regulation banning older trucks […]
New Mega Ships Deployed in 2023
THE Alliance members Hapag-Lloyd, Ocean Network Express, HMM, and Yang Ming have finalized their network plans to deploy larger vessels on the […]