Ocean Freight

Finding the right freight mode for your shipments shouldn’t be a guessing game. Here’s an easy primer on how to match the two in the most efficient, cost-effective manner.  Despite what you may hear in e-commerce circles, not every shipment needs to get to its destination within one or two...

Courtesy of the Panama Canal Authority On December 20th, the Panama Canal welcomed the largest capacity vessel to ever navigate the waterway’s expanded locks, which opened for oceangoing traffic in 2016 after nearly a decade of planning and construction. Canal de Panamá reports that Hapag-Lloyd’s Valparaiso...

Hapag-Lloyd and DB Schenker are celebrating 10 years of a partnership to protect the world’s oceans. The joint project that started as a green supply chain from Sweden to China, has now evolved into an environmental partnership that has seen Hapag-Lloyd reduce its CO2 footprint by 45 percent and DB Schenker...

In the works for about eight years now, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could come to fruition as early as this coming spring. With the World Trade Organization (WTO) projecting a 4 percent increase in world merchandise trade in 2016 (up from 3.3 percent last year and 2.8 percent in 2014),...

Fourth quarter is here, which means it’s time to strategize for the year-end holiday season. A busy time for shippers, carriers, and logistics providers, the end of each year always brings its own set of challenges and opportunities. This year is no different. On one hand, getting the right products...

As global supply chains continue to expand and stretch around the world, a growing number of companies are maximizing the power of these chains and transforming the way they do business. By working with multiple business partners located in different countries—and in many cases to manufacture the parts and equipment...

If recent news headlines are any indication, the world’s shipping lines are facing some tough financial times this year. The impacts have yet to be measured, but with two of the world’s largest entities either already in bankruptcy or possibly heading toward it, it’s time to thoroughly review your shipping...

When Chinese authorities placed the U.S. on its Zika virus “watch list” in August, the move sent shippers in a quandary as they scrambled to figure out how to comply with and/or work around the country’s new restrictions on shipping. The new regulations required that a third party must declare...

Just before the new SOLAS Verified Gross Mass (VGM) rule went into effect on July 1, Dan Smith, principal at The Tioga Group took part in a Logistics Management webcast, Are you prepared for the SOLAS container weight rule? During the presentation, Smith outlined numerous “misconceptions” that shippers have about the...

With the SOLAS Verified Gross Mass (VGM) rule officially in effect as of July 1, shippers around the world must comply with the new regulation or risk shipment delays and other setbacks. To help companies tackle the rule’s most technical details, Andrea Morreira, international logistics manager at Orchard Supply Hardware...