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May 2, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

If you are looking for a good pre-Olympics read, and wish to learn more about the complexity of doing business in the host country, check out The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage (Penguin Press). Alexandra Harney, a reporter for the Financial Times, takes a close look at that nation's changing manufacturing processes, and pulls no punches when it comes to measuring their lomg-term impact on shipping and sourcing. A more mobile and demanding workforce is transforming the industrial base there. Are U.S. companies prepared to be part of that social revolution? Harney hopes so.

April 25, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (1)

With the surging worldwide demand for food and raw materials, US exporters may be seeking alternatives to containerized shipping. Some industry analysts are telling us that a revival of bulk/and breakbulk transport is in for a boost. If true, this means more traffic will be driven to some of the smaller seaports in the developing world that have the concentration of labor and warehousing to discharge and store these goods. Inland distribution, however, may be another matter...and a major challenge.

April 21, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

When the Agriculture Transportation Coalition meets in San Francisco this June, shippers will confront ocean carrier executives with a vexing question: "Where are the containers?" With California's Central Valley growers poised for high season exporting, the boxes just can't be found. Does this require emergency measures or are carriers too complacent to take action?

April 10, 2008 | Link This | Email this | Comments (0)

Just when overseas demand for U.S. raw materials and manufactured goods is ramping up, shippers are scrambling to find containers and chassis to meet the orders. The fact that ocean carriers have reconfigured their deployment schedules in the Transpacific has exacerbated the situation. How can shippers here take advantage of new business opportunities before it’s too late?

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