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Analysis: Why Upcoming ILWU Contract Negotiations are Making Importers Uneasy

MTS Logistics

For the last two decades, twice the ports and labor could not agree on the terms (2002 & 2014) where there were significant delays in the availability of containers at ports. So, there is definitely a valid reason why the ILWU is resisting so much against automation over the last two decades.

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Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – strategic logistics and what went wrong

Logistics in War

Military terminology changes frequently, and you might note that Defence – in 2023 – doesn’t have an agreed upon definition for what strategic logistics is, nor what logistics at the ‘strategic level’ of war entails. It is especially concerned with the preparedness of the combat force.” What do we know?

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Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – strategic logistics and what went wrong

Logistics in War

Military terminology changes frequently, and you might note that Defence – in 2023 – doesn’t have an agreed upon definition for what strategic logistics is, nor what logistics at the ‘strategic level’ of war entails. It is especially concerned with the preparedness of the combat force.” What do we know?

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Americans for Modern Transportation makes renewed case for increasing twin-trailer size to 33 feet

247 Customs Broker

population has nearly doubled in the past 50 years; there are 75 million more vehicles on the road now than in 1960, e-commerce sales are up from $42 billion in 2002 to $291.8 billion in 2016; and the USDOT estimates that freight volumes will rise 45% by 2045.