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US east coast ports make major plays to become intermodal gateways

US importers and forwarders are looking to New York’s Port Elizabeth Terminal for a faster intermodal link to the US Midwest and Canada.
APM Terminals Elizabeth is marketing a new service that claims faster transfers from ship to rail, with multiple daily train departures to the interior.
Key to the operation is a direct-to-rail landing zone at the terminal for rapid transfer of containers to an 18-track rail operation to build double-stack …

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More modal shift as shippers and forwarders seek alternatives to costly airfreight

As the prospect of a return to pre-Covid rate levels recedes ever further, relentlessly high airfreight pricing is prompting more and more shippers to look for alternatives.
Forwarders are being tasked to understand their supply chains better and come up with creative solutions.
But they and shippers see no sign of pricing descending from the stratosphere any time soon.
“It will be some time before we return to pre-Covid rate levels,” said Jeff …

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Borderlands Big changes planned for Texas border bridge

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Big changes planned for Pharr bridge; Team Worldwide opens office in southern Arizona; Amazon to open fulfillment center in Texas Panhandle; and CG Railway launches bigger, faster vessels.

Big changes planned for Texas border bridge

Speeding up commercial truck traffic will be a priority when the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge’s largest expansion project in history...

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Carriers eye alternate ports as congestion at LA-Long Beach tightens

As the epic congestion at the largest marine gateway complex in the US shows no signs of abating, container lines are looking increasingly for west coast alternatives and are diverting vessels, or changing the order of port calls.  
Transpacific sailings that avoid Los Angeles and Long Beach (LA-LB) are arriving, and Oakland and the Tacoma-Seattle Northwest Seaport alliance have reported advanced talks with carriers about new services. 
“Carriers are diverting some vessels or changing the order...

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Team Worldwide’s new president tasked with guiding growth

Team Worldwide, with a focus on technology, service and operations, has appointed Randy Sinker as president of the Texas-based company.

Sinker replaces Jason Brunson, who will remain in the role of chief executive officer of Team Worldwide as well as retain his position as chairman of the board.

“This strategic decision is just one of the many milestones Team Worldwide has celebrated throughout our 41-year history,” Brunson said. “We are confident in Randy’s ability to help guide Team Worldwide...

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US east coast ports expand to handle traffic bypassing congestion in the west

While the US east coast ports are in expansion mode, anticipating growth, the nation’s prime maritime gateway on the west coast remains choked with traffic.
The congestion that has plagued the port complex of Los Angeles and Long Beach in recent months has got worse lately, with dwell times for vessels of almost a week, while on the docks containers pile up, slowing movement of boxes off the facilities.
There has been …

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Supply chains need more resilience, but shippers in no rush to re-evaluate

The Covid-19 pandemic has been widely described as a wake-up call for shippers and consignees to re-evaluate supply chains exposed as vulnerable.
The disruption has put supply chain risk in the spotlight, reinforcing concerns raised by earlier cataclysmic events, like severe flooding in Japan and Thailand.
Among voices extolling the need for more resilience – even at the cost of higher spend on production – has been the Council of Supply Chain …

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Trade war and tariffs fail to slow growing surge of US imports from China

US west coast ports, and rail and road links to the interior, are currently struggling with a surge of imports from Asia, mostly from China.
Despite all the fiery rhetoric and tariffs, the flow of goods from China to the US has not slowed down.
“We have not seen a major slowdown in business with China, it’s pretty steady, if not growing,” said Bob Imbriani, vice-president international services of forwarder Team Worldwide.
If …

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Demand spike and blank sailings make US importers scramble for capacity

Just as their inbound flows are building up, US importers are facing tight capacity on the water, chiefly out of Asia.
“We had at least two conference calls with customers and shipping lines about this in the last few days,” reported Bob Imbriani, senior vice-president international of forwarder Team Worldwide.
“It’s more difficult to get space, and you have to book earlier,” he added.
Waterborne US imports from Asia in June were 9.5% …

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Priority ocean services on the rise as air freight capacity becomes scarce

Soaring airfreight rates have left some commodities on the ground, but expedited ocean services offer an alternative.
To offer a faster maritime link across the Pacific, less-than-container load (LCL) consolidator ECU Worldwide launched an LCL express service between Shanghai and Los Angeles towards the end of last month.
Its Xlerate offering uses Matson Navigation for a 10-day transit between the two ports and ECU claims this is the fastest port-to-port time on …

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