US shipping and inventory data – and what it may indicate about the state of the US economy – could dampen any optimism fueled by New Year’s celebration, writes B. Cameron Gain for EBN, online source for news and information about electronics supply chains. Datamyne...
CigarAdvisor.com’s Gary Korb explains why he attended the Datamyne-NEXCO October 9th conference, Preparing for Trade with Cuba: “My primary reason for attending the conference was to learn about the process of doing business with Cuba, and from what I took away,...
It’s a traffic jam that might make drivers smile. As CNN Money’s Matt Egan reports, the oversupply of oil that has caused prices to crash is causing oil-laden tankers to pile up off the US Gulf Coast: there’s no place left ashore to put all that crude. ClipperData’s...
With the thaw in US-Cuba relations, Cuban trade deserved a fresh look, says the Esri Insider blog. So Esri, a leader in geographic information software (GIS), took Datamyne’s trade data and created a new story map that provides a clear view of the island nation’s...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
