GLDPartners News Blog
Leading Air Freight Forwarders Lose Market Share: Lloyds Loading List
Will Waters writes in the current Lloyds Loading List that the Top 20 and top 100 agents outgrown by their SME rivals last year, with those outside the top 100 achieving average increases of 3.8%" according to WorldACD data. Sometimes data-watching is tedious and sometimes over time you glean important trends. With the overwhelming amounts of data that we all have access to today, it's difficult to sift through and distinguish between the meaningful and trivial.
Washington Releases Details About Freight Projects Funding
Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects A few days ago, US Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Anthony Foxx released a letter stating that DOT will publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity in the Federal Register [...]
Per Kjellgren Joins GLDPartners to Focus on Ports and Terminals Practice
We are pleased to announce that Per Kjellgren has joined GLDPartners as a Partner – Seaports/Terminals. Per Kjellgren will lead GLDPartners’ Seaports and Terminals Practice. He is a senior Transportation and Infrastructure Executive with over 30 years’ [...]
Site-selector survey ranks US states for new investment
From the January edition of Site Selection Magazine, some very interesting results are worth considering. The consultants that advise companies on location strategy consistently focus on taxes and incentives as the top factors for new [...]
Alaska: A New Global Air Cargo/Value-Add Center
A new entity was announced this week in Anchorage Alaska, the new Alaska Aeronexus Alliance has been created to attract global investment at and around the Ted Stevens International Airport (ANC) in Anchorage. With ANC being the 5th [...]
$3.2B Expenditure is a Lot of Incentive: Amazon Transport Logistics
Amazon's entry as a logistics player will change things and the ramifications will be wide.