In the wake of the shale revolution, rising supplies of oil have oil producers weighing their options (if any) to stabilize their product’s price per barrel. In his column from OilPrice.com, Matt Smith, Director of Commodity Research at ClipperData, takes a look at...
Bunker Ports News Asks What’s in the Box? Datamyne Answers
The Port of Oakland moves 99% of the containerized goods that come through Northern California – worth over $40 billion in 2014, Bunker Ports News reports. The Port has released a new video that asks “What’s in the Box [or container]?” and supplies answers based on...
Design News Cites Reshoring Initiative-Datamyne
Despite reports that reshoring efforts are bringing manufacturing back to the US, the sector is still seeing a net deficit in jobs since the recession, Design News contributor Elizabeth Montalbano writes. Her column examines the challenges to companies that want to...
Newsweek Uses Datamyne to Dig into Toxic Fashion
Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza factory collapse in 2013, which buried over 1,100 workers, arrested the attention of American consumers. But the environmental crisis in Asia, driven by outsourced apparel manufacturing and impacting hundreds of millions of people, has gone...
Epoch Times Cites Datamyne in Report on US-China Chicken Trade Flap
Disputes between the United States and China over chicken trade have been especially tense in recent months, reports the Epoch Times. After avian flu broke out in some US commercial poultry flocks in January, China imposed a total ban on all American poultry imports....
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,...
Bloomberg: Datamyne US Port Data Shows Biggest Drop Since ’09
West Coast import volume tumbled 33.4% in January, while the Gulf coast and Puerto Rico saw 12.2% volume increase and East Coast imports climbed 3.4%, reports Bloomberg, citing Datamyne port data released February 18. Nationwide, import volume fell 16.6%, according to...
Bloomberg Uses Datamyne to Gauge Port Slowdown Impact
The US trade deficit made the biggest one-month jump on record in December as a strengthening dollar propelled a surge in imports, reports Bloomberg. The Bloomberg analysis of the various factors contributing to the widest gap between US imports and exports since...
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...
Seeking Alpha Cites Datamyne in Inquiry into Tesla Deliveries
Trade data first published by the Datamyne blog figures in an article in Seeking Alpha about an apparent discrepancy between the number of battery-powered cars Tesla says it’s delivered, and the numbers reported by independent sources. The analysis, by Michael Blair,...