10/10/22 – Demand for Asian goods began dropping earlier this year. This is now having a delayed — and highly negative — effect on U.S. imports. Read More
American Shipper Looks at Maersk’s South Korean Strategy
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...
American Shipper Reports NVOCCs Gain Share of US Imports
Approximately 37.5% of imports to the US were contracted by non-vessel operating common carriers in first quarter 2016, American Shipper reports, citing data from Datamyne. The first-quarter share is “a bump up from 2014’s share of 36.0 percent and a 10 percentage...
American Shipper Cites Datamyne Apparel, Footwear Import Stats
Most apparel and footwear sold in the US is imported – and most is made in China or Southeast Asia and arrives in the US at its West Coast ports. According to Datamyne, 53% of apparel and 76% of footwear move through the five biggest: Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland,...
Datamyne Cited in American Shipper’s US-Canada Freight Story
The key to Purolator International’s success is the freight forwarder’s extensive Canadian network, according to the profile of the company in American Shipper’s January issue. Purolator projects a 20% increase in total volumes handled in 2014 ... this, despite a...
American Shipper Taps Datamyne Stats for Lumber Liquidators Profile
In just 20 years, Lumber Liquidators has grown from one entrepreneur’s idea – buy excess wood from construction sites and sell it at a deep discount – to a nationwide retail operation giving Home Depot and Lowe’s plenty of competition in the flooring market. American...
American Shipper Uses Datamyne to Gauge Growth in US Rice Exports
The US share of world rice production may be tiny at less than 2%, but the country plays an outsize role as an exporter, accounting for more than 10% of global rice trade. Indeed, exports are hugely important to US rice growers, accounting for nearly half of...
Vietnam’s Opportunity: Squandered but Not Yet Lost
American Shipper traces how Vietnam’s once promising container future was scuttled by poor port planning and an ill-timed economic downturn. Trade statistics from Datamyne establish that there has been growth in US containerized imports from Vietnam, it’s not been the...
CBP Commissioner to Step Down?
Bersin described as “a radical departure from prior leaders” American Shipper reports that Alan Bersin’s appointment as Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection will most likely not be confirmed by the Senate and he will have to step down. President Obama made...
Nuts & Bolts
Brush up on exporting basics with summertime webinars The U.S. Foreign Commercial Services (USFCS) and the law firm of Husch Blackwell Sanders will host a webinar Wednesday, July 21, on the factors every U.S. exporter should weigh when drawing up an export distributor...