High winds caused a tractor-trailer to roll over Monday afternoon along Interstate 15 in Montana. It happened in the northbound lanes near Conrad, about 60 miles north of Great Falls. The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) travel information map showed a “full road closure … until recovery is complete.”
The National Weather Service (NWS) in Great Falls sent out a civil emergency message at 3:32 p.m. MT Monday — at the request of the Pondera County Department of Emergency Services —...
Container shipping costs and service levels are at risk of spiralling out of control, according to Drewry.
As well as a massive withdrawal of capacity since the start of the Covid-19 crisis – 468 blanked departures on east-west trades – the analyst said schedule reliability had been “extremely low”.
“In the first half of the year, fewer than two out of three vessels arrived within 24-hours of their ETA,” said Philip Damas, …
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Flexport claims it has won business during the tariff war and Covid-19 crisis by making better use of data than larger rivals.
“We like to say there’s opportunity in chaos,” said Sanne Manders, the forwarder’s chief operating officer, “because when there’s chaos your competitors are paralysed.
“They are larger, bureaucratic organisations, not typically built on modern technology, and they don’t have all the data at their fingertips. So they have to start redesigning …
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The Loadstar por Mike Wackett 05/11/2020, los transportistas marítimos están apuntalando con éxito las tarifas de carga a través de la disciplina de capacidad, con informes de rollover de contenedores (termino utilizado cuando un contenedor no se va en el barco o recalada donde tenia su reserva inicial) en centros de exportación chinos y puertos […]
Esta entrada Control de capacidad mantiene constantes las tarifas de transporte marítimo pero aumentan los rollovers Aparece primero en FullAvanteNew...
Carriers are being accused of an abuse of power by “weaponising rollovers” to force shippers into paying higher spot rates to get their goods moved.
Sources told The Loadstar they were being warned “weeks in advance” of rollovers on North Europe services, claiming carriers are artificially creating rollovers to drive up rates.
“How have they got this space? How do they know they will have a rollover in five weeks? It is …
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