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| Transportation Payment Benchmark Study: Making Dollars and Sense |
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Thursday, March 28, 2013
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American Shipper surveyed more than 250 shippers and third party logistics providers on their transportation payment and auditing practices and technologies. This year’s report delves into new areas, including the interaction between shippers’ logistics operations and finance departments, and whether shippers and 3PLs are using their payment data in the broader procure-to-pay process. Key Focus Areas Include: Manual vs. automated processes Domestic vs. international payment Payment terms Auditing ...
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| Global Trade Management Landscape: Strategies Beyond Compliance |
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Tuesday, March 05, 2013
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The increasing volume and complexity of global trade has placed demands on global trade managers that are amplified by broadened regulations affecting that trade. Governments are writing expanded rules and enforcing them with unprecedented vigor. But GTM is about more than just compliance – it’s about integrating the financial, regulatory, and transportation components of a supply chain through enhanced processes and the best people. The report explores five challenges universal to global trade manageme...
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| Demystifying Liner Shipping Webinar: Understanding how carriers manage capacity and schedules, February 14, 2013, 11 AM EST |
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
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A shoe manufacturer knows that when sales for its products slow in winter, it needs to reduce production capacity. That could involve temporarily closing a production line for a time, removing a shift, or just slowing the speed of production. All tools to help match output to demand. Ocean carriers have the same problem: how to manage capacity to bring it in line with demand. And their problems are exacerbated by a requirement to best utilize the new super-efficient “factories” (i.e. large vessels) bein...
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| Webinar: The Looming Driver Shortage: How Regulations and Demand May Affect Trucking Capacity |
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
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A bevy of regulations is due to hit the trucking industry just as the carriers are finding it more difficult to find and retain qualified drivers. Additionally, analysts predict an uptick in U.S. GDP could create a demand spike for truckload and less-than-truckload services. These dual forces have the potential to create a significant driver shortage. A host of questions are left to be answered: How might this shortage affect shippers? What is the status of regulations affecting the trucking industry? H...
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| Global Transportation Management: Integrating Domestic and International Logistics Operations, January 24th 2013, 2 PM EST |
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
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Archive copy now available for download. American Shipper research shows global shippers are being challenged to integrate domestic and international logistics operations. For many shippers, particularly those leveraging multiple modes, this initiative requires major changes to business processes, organizational structure, and IT systems. It is clear there are many hurdles in integrating these classically disparate operations. This one-hour discussion will focus on the market forces causing this trend, ...
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| NVO Countdown - No. 6 |
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
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Welcome to the seventh instalment of American Shipper ’s yearlong countdown of the top 12 non-vessel-operating common carriers for U.S. inbound containerized cargo. Using data provided to American Shipper by the trade intelligence firm Zepol Corp., we’ll take a closer look at each of these companies in terms of where their cargo originates, where in the United States it’s destined, which liner carriers they use, and how their volumes have trended quarter to quarter. ...
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| Report: Trucking market poised on knife edge |
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
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The U.S. domestic trucking market is finely poised, with characteristics that could push it into no growth or capacity shortage, depending on which way the wind blows, according to Noel Perry, senior consultant of the transportation analyst FTR Associates. Perry and fellow senior consultant Larry Gross gave a rundown of rail, trucking, and intermodal markets in FTR’s State of Freight webinar last week. “We need to think about the relationship between truck freight ...
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| Whale avoidance? There's an app for that |
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Thursday, April 05, 2012
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The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration said mariners along the U.S. East Coast can now download a new iPad and iPhone application that warns them when they enter areas of high risk of collision with critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. The free Whale Alert app provides one source for information about right whale management measures and the latest data about right whale detections, all overlaid on NOAA digital charts. Fede...
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| Drewry: Container industry lost $5.2 billion in 2011 |
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Thursday, January 05, 2012
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London-based Drewry Maritime Research estimates the container industry lost as much as $5.2 billion in 2011, despite a projected global container growth of 6.5 percent last year. This year it is predicting overall growth of just 5.4 percent. Drewry said the latest quarterly edition of its Container Forecaster publication predicts 2012 "will be another challenging year for liner operators. With question marks over the strength of global demand, delivery of big ships ...
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| MSC leads on U.S. inbound capacity |
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011
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The liner carrier Mediterranean Shipping Co. is the leading provider of allocated capacity to the United States, according to figures this week from American Shipper liner research affiliate ComPair Data’s World Liner Supply Analytics (WLSA). The European line, second largest in the world, currently provides an estimated 60,555 TEUs of weekly allocated capacity. That accounts for 13.2 percent of all U.S. inbound capacity. Total weekly allocated capacity to the United Sta...
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| AS poll: One-third shippers with cargo rolled |
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Monday, November 21, 2011
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Nearly one in three eastbound transpacific shippers and Non-Vessel Operating Common Carriers has had at least some cargo rolled in recent weeks, but most say it’s not happening often, according to a poll conducted last week by American Shipper . The poll found that 69 percent said they had no cargo rolled at all, while 28 percent said they had experienced rolls, but not often. Only 3 percent said rolls are happening at an increasing rate. American Shipper conducted ...
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| Milwaukee port impacts 1,416 jobs, $2 bn trade |
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Monday, November 21, 2011
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The Port of Milwaukee says an economic impact study estimates it creates 1,416 jobs in Wisconsin. Of the 1,416 jobs, 624 jobs were directly generated by the marine cargo and vessel activity at the marine terminals at the Port of Milwaukee. As a result of the local and regional purchases by the 624 individuals holding the direct jobs, an additional 498 induced jobs were supported in the regional economy, and 294 indirect jobs were supported by $24 ...
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| National top highway chokepoints study |
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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A new report by the Texas Transportation Institute identifies 328 stretches of highway across the nation that are seriously congested on a regular basis over a variety of times during the week. The least reliable corridor is the southbound section of Georgia Route 400 in Atlanta between the toll plaza and I-85. According to the study , drivers have to allow 256 percent more time than the average to complete their trip on time 19 out of 20 times. The northbound Van ...
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| Carrier reliability 3Q report from Drewry |
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
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Container service reliability improved for the second quarter in a row during the third quarter of 2011, according to Drewry Maritime Research’s latest Schedule Reliability Insight report. The proportion of 3,281 ships arriving on time (defined as either arriving at port on the advertised ETA or a day earlier) at selected ports in the third quarter of 2011 rose by 8 percent points compared to the previous quarter, to 63 percent. Maersk Line retained its position as...
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| Study: Great Lakes-Seaway boasts North American jobs |
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway navigation system supports more than 225,000 jobs and generates billions of dollars in income and revenues annually in both the United States and Canada, according to a study released today. The study, “The Economic Impacts of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System 2010,” was commissioned by the maritime industry and government agencies from both countries. It was peer reviewed by both U.S. and Canadian economists. &...
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