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Egypt and Upheaval: What’s happening and what it means for import/export traffic through the Suez Canal. An article posted two days ago (Jan 29th) in the Telegraph described Egypt as a nation on [...]

The potential ILA strike of approximately 14,500 dockworkers at U.S. East and Gulf ports is a week away. At the threat of an event that would cause major disruptions to the supply chain in the [...]

or the alternate title: Why it sucks to be a Chinese (or any –ese) shipping company right now and what can be done about it: Hellenic News just published an amazingly brief article[1] (Wow! Can I [...]

Recently my wife and I traveled throughout Asia, visiting Thailand, Vietnam, and China. We flew on Japan Airlines and even though they are not as high end as some of the other carriers, such as [...]

I read an article about the threatened ILA Strike and it rang a few bells for me. Bell #1: The term “choke-hold”. In an article in the Observer (9/25/12) David Jaffee, a sociologist at the [...]

Automobile and Vehicle Shipping When it comes to automobile shipping, you have two main options. You can ship your vehicle in a container or ship via Roll On Roll Off (RORO). But which option is [...]

תַּרְשִׁישׁ – Tarshish We’ve all heard big fish stories. Perhaps you’ve even told one or two. Growing up in Michigan, surrounded by lakes, I heard many big fish stories as a child. “The [...]

The negotiations are not over yet, but many businesses are letting out a sigh of relief over the tense situation caused by threats of an ILA strike at East Coast and Gulf ports that would have [...]