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| Analysis: Asia-Europe scramble |
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012
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In what feels like a continuing saga that’s sure to dominate the next year, the Asia-Europe “war” continues to evolve. At the very end of 2011, the latest shoes dropped, with the Grand and New World alliances, and Evergreen Line and the CKYH Alliance, forming two more super-groups to go along with the joining of Mediterranean Shipping Co. and CMA CGM on the Asia-Europe lane. In case you’re keeping score at home, at the start of November there were eight m...
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| Brokers clean up import messes |
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
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I am president of a customs house broker that has helped its importing customers for more than 100 years. The ignorance of the August letter ( 'Progress threatens
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| Hub-and-spoke war heats up? |
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Thursday, September 01, 2011
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In the same week as Maersk Line announced a competitive new direct connection from West Coast South America into Mediterranean Shipping Co.'s East Mediterranean heartland, MSC appears to be putting a brazen spanner in the works for Maersk Line and its partners between Oceania and the Americas. &
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| Maersk goes global with hubs and spokes |
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
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Most people know the name Maersk Line when it comes to container shipping. This Danish carrier seems to have been the largest boxship operator in the world for so long that few now bother to question how it came to be so. Maersk McKinney Moller, now in his 90s, had the opportunity and motiv
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| Mismanaged transpacific capacity hurts the vulnerable |
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
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When Matson Navigation Co. said this week it was shuttering one of its two transpacific services, it was yet another example of the liner carrier industry finally coming to terms with the reality of the 2011 market.
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| PierPass value justifies fee hike |
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Monday, August 01, 2011
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Bruce Wargo president, PierPass, Long Beach, Ca. Over the past few weeks, American Shipper and others have focused a
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| Progress threatens broker industry |
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Monday, August 01, 2011
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In the letter, ' More to brokerage than pushing a button ,' (online at www.AmericanShipper.com/links) the assertions of Jeffrey Coppersmith, president of the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America, appear to arise from an organization and industry that is coming to realize the world, spurred by advances in
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| MSC finally shows its hand |
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
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On June 29 veteran Chilean liner shipping company Compagnia Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV) advised its shareholders that it had entered into discussions with Geneva-based Mediterranean Shipping Co. and CMA CGM of France to form joint operations or consortia in key container trades. Ne
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| The roots of a third east/west power lane |
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
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For years, American Shipper affiliate ComPair Data has allowed the industry to see which of the two major east/west trades are the biggest. The rises and falls in capacity on the eastbound t
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| �Small� ships fall away on Asia/Europe |
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Wednesday, July 06, 2011
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Too bad Darwin missed the advent of the cargo container. The evolution of species always seems to apply especially well to the liner shipping industry. The most recent example is the dropping of two Asia/Europe services in the last 20 days by the CKYH Alliance and CSAV. &nb
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| Obama lays out counterterrorism strategy |
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Friday, July 01, 2011
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Washington Notebook By Eric Kulisch The Obama administration on Wednesday released its National Strategy for Counterterrorism, which formalizes the approach it has taken the past 30 months to prevent terrorist attacks and destroy al-Qaeda.
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