As one of the top stories of 2021, every day there are multiple stories about global importing and the current shipping crisis speculating when it might end. While there are many reasons it exists, sorting through the noise to find the answer is not an easy task....
Ports Maxing out Available Space: McCahill Tells Supply Chain Management Review
Neopanamax ships are pushing ports to invest in infrastructure that maximizes the use of their available space, Brendan McCahill, Senior Vice President of Trade Data Content at Descartes Systems Group, tells Supply Chain Management Review (SCMR) in an interview....
Conflict minerals in your supply chain? Trade data supplies answers
Datamyne trade data yields country-of-origin, details of 3T+G imports out of Africa Miami – April 28, 2015 – Datamyne, a leading provider of web-based international business intelligence, has been tracking the trade data on imports of tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold...
Oyster Po’boys Are off the Menu
Prices rise as buyers stockpile Gulf seafood Expecting shortages as the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill continued to spread in the Gulf of Mexico, seafood purveyors rushed to stockpile and helped drive up the prices of shrimp and oysters. Now, as the Independent of...
Reading Tea Leaves
Yerba maté arrives in Hamburg … and a hackers convention in New York Forget coffee or green tea … have a latte made from a South American shrub, a species of holly (Ilex paraguariensis), actually. Yerba maté bars are springing up in Starbucks territory, the Pacific...
Frankie & Johnny’s Sues BP
The slick spreads, fishing is banned, legal claims multiply The U.S. Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) yesterday extended the boundaries of the area closed to fishing in the Gulf of Mexico to include 45,728 square miles, or...
OJ on Ice
A January cold snap spikes the price of citrus Latest assessments from the U.S. Department of Agriculture put the loss to Florida citrus growers from January’s cold snap at 7.4 million boxes of fruit at minimum — this on top of a harvest forecast that was already 20%...



