United Parcel Service (UPS) surprised a lot of us last week with an early announcement on 2017 rate increases. Though the teaser was a couple months earlier than expected, it shouldn’t have shocked any of us — we all knew annual rate hikes were coming. Are you nervous? Don’t be — unless you fail to […]
As the chemical industry continues to grow, shippers and their service partners work hard to keep product moving, trouble-free. Take the 859 million tons of chemicals that U.S. companies shipped in 2014, load that volume onto rail cars, and you’d fill enough cars to circle the globe three times, says the American Chemistry Council (ACC). […]
With Korean ocean carrier Hanjin Shipping, the seventh largest ocean liner in the world that handles roughly 7% of U.S.-Asia cargo, filing for bankruptcy earlier this week, what happens next in regards to what happens to the cargo that was moving on Hanjin vessels at that time, as well as its subsequent short-term impact on […]
To keep customers happy, retailers play a daily game of beat the clock. For some retailers, smart supply chain management strategies and 3PL partnerships keep the orders flowing. For others, well…time may be up. Bricks and mortar aren’t dead yet. According to Census Bureau estimates, just 7.8 percent of all U.S. retail sales in the […]
