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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Things are slowing down at the US’s largest oil-import hub, reports Bloomberg. Six years ago, the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) was receiving more than one million barrels a day. Now it’s taking in just half of that. Indeed, the US Customs district in Morgan...
Savannah, the fastest-growing port on the US coast for a decade, is on pace to overtake New York as the top East Coast container port. Savannah’s September imports climbed 21.7% compared with a 7% increase for New York, reports Bloomberg, drawing on maritime import...
The Reshoring Initiative announced the launch of a solution that economic development agencies can use to identify opportunities to attract new production facilities and promote sourcing from existing business in the locales they serve. The solution, which is being...
The Wall Street Journal looks at the trends that have lifted sales of quinoa over the last five years … and cites trade statistics from Datamyne that measure the surge in imports and price of the Andean grain. For most of the three decades that Ancient Harvest has...
