SupplyChainBrain shares insights from Descartes’ Richard McNish on the imperative for ecommerce businesses to minimize the risk of parcel delivery problems and consistently meet customer expectations at a time when last mile issues are a significant threat to return on investment and customer retention.
Inside Shipping’s Greg Miller examines the biggest jump in January U.S. container imports vs. December in seven years, driven by volumes to the West Coast from China, according to Descartes’ recent global shipping report.
Global Trade Magazine shares insights from Descartes’ Ted Rowe on how specialized duty recovery practices can help importers recoup duty overpayments, a critical strategy for many given an estimated 80%-90% of businesses importing goods into Canada overpay customs duties or miss out on available refunds.
On the Logistics of Logistics podcast, Joe Lynch hosts Descartes’ Andrew Wimer for a discussion on some of the blind spots in freight visibility, including clunky onboarding, dirty data and blackholes at ports for transportation providers.
gCaptain features findings from Descartes’ latest global shipping report, showing that January 2024’s 7.9% surge in U.S. container imports marks the largest month-over-month growth for January in the last seven years and was primarily fueled by a 14.9% rise in imports from China.
Logistics Management features insights from Descartes’ latest global shipping report, which shows annual and sequential gains for United States-bound container imports driven, in large part, by imports from China.
Bloomberg cites data from Descartes’ latest global shipping report, showing that China’s share of U.S. container imports in 2023 fell to 37.2%, the lowest since 2005 and down from a 2018 peak of 44.6%. Over that same period, Vietnam’s share increased more than sixfold to 8.3%.
Wall Street Journal examines the uptick in U.S. freight activity to start 2024, citing the highest month-over-month growth in container imports in seven years, according to Descartes’ latest global shipping report, as a sign of rising demand.
Style Mag shares findings from Descartes’ labor study, including that the areas suffering the most from resource shortages in supply chain and logistics are transportation operations (61%) and warehouse operations (56%).
National Post on Descartes’ labor report, which reveals 76% of the supply chain and logistics leaders surveyed are facing notable workforce shortages, that the areas suffering the most acutely are transportation operations (61%) and warehouse operations (56%).