US and Canada battle over lumber import tariffs

Canada is escalating its dispute with the U.S. over import duties imposed on softwood lumber products from the country.

The U.S. and Canada have been embroiled in a trade dispute over duties on softwood lumber for decades, with U.S. lumber officials seeking government restrictions on Canadian imports through countervailing duty and antidumping laws.

In July, the Commerce Department continued imposing duties on the Canadian timber products, ruling that Canadian softwood lumber would be subject to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-and-canada-battle-over-lumber-import-tariffs

Savage, Canadian Pacific partner on Chicago-area transload facility

A photograph of a train rolling past a rail crossing.

Logistics and materials handling provider Savage has developed and is operating a transload facility at a Chicago-area Canadian Pacific rail yard to support the construction industry.

The CPT Chicago Transload terminal at CP’s Bensenville, Illinois, rail yard will transload lumber and building materials to serve the Chicago region. The yard also has access to major Chicago highways, including Interstates 294, 290 and 355 and the Elgin O’Hare Tollway (Interstate 390). 

In addition to transloading,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/savage-canadian-pacific-partner-on-chicago-area-transload-facility

Flatbed steady amid lumber shortages, construction tightness

House construction nationwide is being constrained by the tight supply and mile-high price of lumber, but this squeeze has not been felt by the flatbed truckers who haul these loads.

Reliance Partners CFO Thom Albrecht said the lumber shortage can be viewed from both a glass half empty and full perspective, depending on who you ask in the supply chain. 

Those hurting the most right now are the end consumers — builders and homeowners — of which many have found it difficult to finish projects on...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/flatbed-steady-amid-lumber-shortages-construction-tightness

How Shortage of Shipping Pallets Could Pose As A Serious Threat

After nearly 15 months of living through a pandemic, we’re getting use to the fact that sometimes there are shortages in the supply chain, reports ABC 11.

Shortage of pallets

Probably the most notorious was the toilet paper shortage early in the pandemic. But brace yourselves, the latest shortage doesn’t just affect one type of product, it affects many of them. There’s now a shortage of wooden shipping pallets–the wooden platforms products are stacked on for shipping.

A large percentage of the...

https://mfame.guru/how-shortage-of-shipping-pallets-could-pose-as-a-serious-threat/

White Paper – Industrial Freight Review 2020

At its most basic level, industrial freight is essentially any freight tangentially associated with manufacturing and construction (and the requisite inputs and outputs involved). Thus, when one refers to industrial freight, it means products such as lumber, automotive parts and finished vehicles, steel, heavy equipment, construction materials, etc.

Industrials are very cyclical in nature, and demand for industrial-related products tends to rise and fall with the U.S. business cycle. As...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/white-paper-industrial-freight-review-2020

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