Peak season

Amazon to hire 100,000 logistics, fulfillment workers

Amazon fulfillment

Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMZN) said Monday it will hire 100,000 full and part-time logistics and fulfillment workers in North America as it continues to manage sizable delivery growth and gears up with what is expected to be an unprecedented peak holiday shipping season.

The Seattle-based company did not specify how many of these new hires, if any, would be seasonal workers brought in to manage peak-season activity. Amazon said that hiring for the positions has already begun in the U.S. and...

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UPS hikes SurePost rates to match USPS peak surcharges

UPS Inc. (NYSE:UPS) said it will increase rates by 24 cents on all parcels moving under its SurePost parcel-induction product with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), effective Oct. 18.

The per-parcel increase matches a 24-cent peak-season holiday surcharge imposed by USPS, the first time the agency has ever levied surcharges during the holiday season. The USPS charges will be levied on large commercial customers like UPS, which under the SurePost program dumps massive volumes deep into the postal...

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UPS slaps peak holiday surcharges on US B2C shippers

Levies designed to offset volume surges during historic peak season

UPS Inc. (NYSE:UPS), bracing for what may be a historic peak holiday shipping season, will impose surcharges ranging from $1 to $3 per package on high-volume U.S. residential shippers, the shipping and logistics giant announced on Friday, August 7.

Surcharges of varying types will apply to all customers shipping more than 250,000 parcels per week during the eight-week peak cycle which begins November 15, UPS said. The surcharge...

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Carriers Capitalize on Blank Sailings As Spot Rates Give Peak Season Hope

industrial port with containers

According to a LoadStar article by Mike Wackett, Container freight rates between Asia and Europe are holding firm, thanks to a demand spike and renewed hope of a peak season on the route.

Why This Sudden Hope?

The hopes stem from the unlocking of Covid-19 restrictions in Europe, boosting retail sales predictions.

  • The North European component of today’s Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI) ticked up 1.3% to $886 per teu, which is an impressive 24% higher than...

https://mfame.guru/carriers-capitalize-on-blank-sailings-as-spot-rates-give-peak-season-hope/

South African citrus exporters facing problems as peak season looms

As South Africa’s citrus fruit exporters prepare for their peak shipping season and shipping lines rush to reposition empty reefers, the country’s main ports are pushing through programmes to increase capacity.
Citrus exporters are faced with a series of challenges, including port congestion, a potential shortage of reefer equipment and the danger of not being in compliance with the country’s trucking regulations.
Cape Town Container Terminal (CTPT) was due to return to full …

The post South...

https://theloadstar.com/south-african-citrus-exporters-facing-problems-as-peak-season-looms/

Oakland opens peak season – Box volume up

Biggest August ever for imports, sixth straight month of export gains

Peak season has begun at the Port of Oakland with growth in containerized cargo volume. The Port reported that import loads increased 3.1 percent last month compared to August 2018. Exports rose 1 percent. Empty container shipments declined 14 percent.

The Port said it handled the equivalent of 88,323 20-foot loaded import containers last month. That made it Oakland’s busiest August ever for inbound loads. Export volume was...

https://container-news.com/port-oakland-peak-season/

Oakland port unsure but ready for peak season

Uncertainty clouds the peak season container shipping outlook with more threatened tariffs on Chinese imports to the U.S. looming. But the Port of Oakland said that there’s no uncertainty about handling the annual August-November cargo rush.

“The Port is operating efficiently, ships are getting in-and-out on time and cargo is moving without delay,” said Maritime Director John Driscoll. “We don’t see that changing in the coming months.”

The Port said it wouldn’t project volume for shipping’s...

https://container-news.com/oakland-port-unsure-ready-peak-season/

Maersk strengthens cargo management system in US

Article provided by Maersk

Authors: Katherine Mosquera and Mathew S. Leanderson

Growing with U.S. retailers

Maersk moves roughly 20% of the global ocean capacity, yet it has less than 1% of trucking capacity of the $770B U.S. trucking and drayage services market. That is about to change as Maersk continues to sign contracts with both large and medium-sized retailers to provide Destination Cargo Management (DCM) services, already doubling their customers’ use of DCM services this year.

For Maersk,...

https://container-news.com/maersk-strengthens-cargo-management-system-us/

Supply chain radar: Peak season, what peak season?

“Global ship operators that normally begin the summer preparing for peak shipping season instead are bracing for a surge in tariffs. Executives say they are concerned that recent weakness in shipping rates sends an ominous signal just as some major economies are starting to stumble and trade tensions are rising.” – Wall Street Journal, June 2019.  
This is normally the time of the year when, full of enthusiasm, ocean carriers …

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Port of Oakland sees its busiest Peak Season

October imports set record; total cargo volume up 3.9 percent for year

The Port of Oakland had its busiest peak season ever for imports during the past three months. The Port said on Nov. 16 that it handled the equivalent of 250,686 loaded 20-foot import containers from August through October, the traditional highwater mark for container shipping. That broke the old peak season import record of 233,825 containers set in the summer and fall of 2017.

The Port attributed the increase in cargo volume...

http://container-news.com/port-oakland-busiest-peak-season/

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