Cargo shippers

2023 Shipper of Choice profile: S&C Electric

S&C Electric Co. is one of 25 companies that met the criteria for the 2023 Shipper of Choice awards, presented by FreightWaves in partnership with TriumphPay. The awards recognize manufacturers, retailers and distributors that nurture carrier relationships by removing impediments to efficient operations.

S&C Electric, based in Chicago, is a global provider of equipment and services for electric power systems.

Why S&C Electric made the cut

S&C Electric manufactures components for the electric grid...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/2023-shipper-of-choice-profile-sc-electric

Nuvocargo upgrades cargo shipment visibility platform

Nuvocargo recently updated its platform to include bilingual tracking features, as well as tools to provide shippers with more visibility for U.S.-Mexico cargo shipments.

The new visibility tools triple the number of tracking points available for customers to monitor their cross-border shipment in real time on Nuvocargo’s platform, Deepak Chhugani, founder and CEO, said in a release.

“These new tracking notifications give our customers access to more visibility, knowing exactly the moment their...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/nuvocargo-upgrades-cargo-shipment-visibility-platform

Container Shipping Boom To Continue in 2021? Or Is the Party Over?

According to a Freight Waves article written by their Senior Editor Greg Miller, there could be a hard landing when the container boom finally ends.

The Year End Boom

As 2020 draws to a close, the world’s container-shipping network is bursting at the seams.

  • The Shanghai Containerized Freight Index jumped again last week, to another all-time high. 
  • There’s market chatter of all-in Asia-West Coast rates (including premiums) of over $8,000 per forty-foot equivalent unit (FEU) and Asia-East Coast...

https://mfame.guru/container-shipping-boom-to-continue-in-2021-or-is-the-party-over/

Commentary: The next big disruption of the supply chain network

The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.

While the Mediterranean Sea as a whole has been the center of oil and gas explorations, it is in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea that massive gas fields exist. “According to a 2010 study by the U.S. Geological Survey, the Eastern Mediterranean could hold as much as 122 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in total, equivalent to the reserves of Iraq.” However, the...

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