ELD crackdown cutting hours from US shipper supply chains
Regulators are tightening their oversight of electronic logging devices to deter fraud in driver work hours, squeezing already reduced truck capacity.
Regulators are tightening their oversight of electronic logging devices to deter fraud in driver work hours, squeezing already reduced truck capacity.
The port may see a 5% volume uptick amid Red Sea and Panama Canal concerns and is readying itself for the scenario in talks with operating partners.
The agency in charge of the canal will start limiting the number of ships that can transit due to the ongoing lack of freshwater to replenish its locks amid a drought caused by a strong El Niño weather pattern.
Almost a half-million TEUs of capacity at three of China’s main ports went by the boards in the aftermath of Typhoon Dolphin, with Asia-Latin America and Asia-Europe services the most heavily disrupted.
The consumer electronics giant said 29 of its supply chain facilities were certified zero waste and meet requirements for a resource use and efficiency certification.
Almost six months of ship attacks, on-again, off-again ceasefires and start-stop Hormuz transits has left liners with little incentive to put ships, crew and cargo in harm’s way by returning to the Persian Gulf too early, analysts say.
While container lines are aiming for a gradual return to Red Sea transits to avoid overloading European terminals, the amount of reactivated proforma capacity is still rising sharply.
Despite added charges for faster fulfillment, customers are flocking to the retailer’s roster of quick delivery options, executives said.
The volatile weather pattern poses a growing concern for refrigerated container shipments from Latin America, market experts told a TPM cold-chain webcast.
The company, a provider of widely used forwarding software, told the Australian Stock Exchange it would “fully cooperate” with the investigation after the third raid of its Sydney headquarters in recent years.