Industry Insights
Industry Updates and Pointers for Peak Season Planning
Cargo Services believes in keeping our customers informed and empowered, especially during times of industry challenges. We strive to provide clarity regarding the latest developments affecting freight forwarding services. Red Sea Disruptions: Recent disruptions in...
Navigating 2024 Supply Chain Chaos
In late 2023, the import/export container industry was recovering from high volatility in both rates and transit times. Disruptions were at a minimum and while the seas were calm and ocean rates were suppressed, many companies were able to stabilize much of their...
2024: What’s on the horizon
As we look ahead and see 2024 on the horizon, our team is keeping watch on current shipping trends. Rates are low, which is the good news. Yet disruptions could make the New Year bumpy. Plan ahead with a diversified shipping...
Cargo Services commitment to sustainability
Our customer focused team uses its talents, knowledge and expertise to partner with clients representing manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, plastics, animal feed, food, publishing and other business sectors to seamlessly move air, ocean and ground cargo....
Matt Carmichael named national sales manager
Please join us in congratulating Matt Carmichael, who has been promoted to national sales manager of our trusted and tenured Cargo Services business development team. Matt brings three decades of experience in the global supply chain and manufacturing industry. He has...
Cargo shipping: Coasting to the 2023 finish line
There’s no doubt that the last three years cargo shipping has been a wild ride. Anyone who’s worked in the freight forwarding business with tenure knows what’s normal versus historic. When cargo shipping makes headlines like it did over the past few years, it’s...
Freight Forwarding and the Impact of Alliances
Since 2015, the freight forwarding industry has found itself maneuvering operations that are impacted by shipping Alliances. There are three—2M, Ocean, THE Alliance—that control over 80% of global trade. Carriers operate in three teams controlling container space and...
CSI Europe Trip
An analysis released in June 2023 by Canada-based Descartes, a logistics tech company, tells us what our team has known for years. China has lost ground to Asian competitors exporting some goods to the United States. While the country remains solidly among the...
Trending conversations from TPM23
Our Cargo Services team attended the TPM23 conference hosted by industry publication leaders from the Journal of Commerce. This annual conference is the premier event for global logistics, freight and supply chain leaders. Here’s a summary of the Top 10 conversations...
India manufacturing: Think China in the 1980s
Jefferson Clay Director of global sales After three years doing business over the phone and Zoom, our Cargo Services team is back on the road traveling to client sites and meeting with global partners. Late last year, I traveled to both India and Turkey. We wanted to...
U.S. Freight forwarding is improving, but we’re not there yet…
Recent national headlines tell the story of a freight turnaround. The historic number of ships at the Port of LA/Long Beach waiting to unload is down. Spot rates are falling. And empty containers are being rotated and rebalanced into the supply chain. We remain...
4Q freight forwarding trends
While complete shipping recovery is still months away, by all indications the industry is moving in a more positive direction: rates are easing, congestion is lessening, turn times are getting quicker and chassis/containers are being restocked. Here is a summary of...