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It’s Not All About Vessel Efficiencies: There is a Limit to Megaship Sizing
Article about diminishing returns from ever larger vessels. A missing element of the conversation tends to be the needs of shippers.
Can China’s Manufacturers Make US Factories Successful?
All of us are aware of how China’s economy has exploded over the last thirty years, in part based upon the amazing performance of its low cost manufacturers that make the goods that line shelves of US discount stores. And in fact many argue that China will overtake the United States to become the leading economic power in the world.
It’s Here. Regular Service By Large Vessels to the US West Coast
The French ocean carrier will deploy the mammoth 18,000-TEU CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin and five sister ships in the transpacific trade between Asia and the United States West Coast starting in May.
USDOT Opens Applications for $800 Million: “FASTLANE” Freight Grants
Fully empowering local creativity, or funding an uncoordinated muddle of disconnected projects that actually don't add up to a strategic investment and infrastructure plan? Well, the US Government is now really putting significant tax funding behind freight project funding. At GLDPartners, we're not sure that we are necessarily spending toward a comprehensive and coordinated national business strategy, but at least we are allowing state and local officials to use their own project inventiveness. From our corporate and sector intelligence work, we see special market opportunity at and around airports and seaports. Let's hope that we see projects that are able to solve cargo movement problems and create economic growth.
US National Freight Plan Draft – We’ve Made A Lot of Progress. But Not There Yet.
A vast step forward and accolades are deserved to many for pushing us along toward a thoughtful and comprehensive strategy for freight planning and investment. It's been a long time and somehow this has been very challenging. That said, let me underline that like most "freight" studies and strategies, it seems that there is still a wall between economic strategy, competitiveness assessing and freight planning.
Is Reshoring Investment Down? and if it is down, why and what’s the future?
An interesting read published in Electronics Purchasing Strategies about the status of reshoring investment from Asia. It's always interesting to hear the debates between the advocates and the pessimists - the truth is almost always [...]