Datamyne News

Descartes Datamyne provides supply chain managers with fresh news on domestic ocean cargo gateway trends and productivity in its U.S. Port Report 2016, writes Patrick Burnson in Logistics Management. Brendan McCahill, senior vice president of Trade Data Content at Descartes Datamyne describes the way the granular data underlying the...

The Dominican Republic is the leading Latin American importer and fifth-ranked importer overall of electric vehicles (EVs) manufactured in the United States as of first-quarter 2017, according to newly available trade data from Descartes Datamyne, América Economía reports. The Caribbean nation stands out as a buyer of electric cars...

After falling to historic lows in 2016, ocean freight rates began to recover towards the end of last year, writes Cathy Roberson in Pharma Logistics IQ. Meanwhile, air freight rates remain high and capacity is tightening. More pharmaceutical shippers are looking to ocean freight as an alternative. Indeed, Descartes...

Effective supply chain design requires taking an end-to-end view … and that means looking beyond the four walls of the enterprise to what is happening (or could happen) in the world at large. Recognizing this, providers of Global Trade Management (GTM) solutions are expanding their Content as a Service...

What is the #1 technology topic Descartes CEO Ed Ryan is asked about? Drones. Which is why a drone took flight above the audience at his keynoter at the Descartes Evolution 2017 Global User & Partner Conference in March. Coolness factor aside, as Ryan pointed out, there are plenty...

LogisticsTI takes a look at Alibaba’s OneTouch online import-export services (including loans) aimed at small and medium enterprises (SMEs) … although, take note, Maersk, CMA CGM and a host of other undeniably big transportation providers and forwarders recently signed on to the platform. Currently there are more than 100...

Wear and Tear, a four-part series of reports from digital publication Undark, documents the impacts of tanneries and textile mills that take advantage of weak environmental regulation in developing economies. Produced by the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program at MIT, Undark examines the movement of two international industries: Tanning...

The US embargo against Cuba still limits trade between the two countries, but an analysis for the Miami Herald by Datamyne shows steady traffic between several Florida air- and seaports and the island. Trade reached almost $65 million last year. In 2015, the Port Everglades, Port Miami, Miami International...