Will Amazon compete against the likes of DHL, FedEx and UPS? LogisticsTI poses the question and concludes: Maybe ... but that’s not the point of Amazon’s logistics network. Amazon just wants to make sure its customers and its sellers are taken care of first. So it is...
Has China moved into the crosshairs as the US takes aim at imports? Candidate Donald Trump promised pushback on Chinese imports during his campaign. Now the new president has tapped China critics and trade hawks to fill key trade posts in his administration, as the...
2016 was a record-setting year for several top North American container ports, although Hanjin Shipping’s bankruptcy dashed hopes for a strong showing in Long Beach, reports Transport Topics, citing data from several sources, including the ports, trade associations...
Lithium, last year’s hottest metal, looks set to be even hotter in 2017. With the new year barely a day old, mineral exploration company Birimian announced the sale of its Bougouni lithium project in southern Mali to China’s Shandong Mingrui Group. The deal signals...
Fully processed and enhanced records of in-bound shipments are now online 24 hours after receipt from Customs MIAMI – January 9, 2017 – Datamyne, a top provider of global market intelligence based on trade data and newest member of the Descartes Systems Group, has...
The year-in-review story from Daily Coffee News summarizes 2016 as “A Year of Information-Sharing and Buyer Segmentation in Specialty Green Trading.” Datamyne’s launch of its Coffee Import Weekly at NCA is on the list of the Daily’s top 15 importer/trading-focused...
Breaking news: Datamyne and its South American affiliates, Mercosur Online, Urunet and Datamyne do Brasil, have been acquired by Descartes Systems Group, the recognized global leader in providing on-demand, software-as-a-service solutions for improving the...
by John M. Peterson, guest columnist Congress recently (and quietly) removed an exception to the 85-year-old prohibition on importing goods made with forced and indentured labor. Section 910 of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2016 repeals the...
Why did Korea Line close a deal to buy Hanjin Shipping’s business networks and client information, but leave the bankrupt carrier’s ships on the table? Hayes Howard, CEO BlueWater Reporting, raises this and other questions in an analysis of how Asia-North America...
“It can be like whack-a-mole,” one steelmaker exec told us recently. “AD/CVD duties do have an effect, but there is so much excess steel capacity in the world that when, say, China is blocked, here comes the steel from someplace else. Countries are watching for any...
