Airfreight: The new ‘sole’ of the footwear industry’s logistics operations?
A COVID-driven boom in e-commerce has increased the footwear industry’s reliance on airfreight, a trend that is likely to continue. ...
Tag: modal shift
Suez Canal backlog pushes freight to air
Ongoing problems with ocean freight have been exacerbated by the weeklong Suez Canal blockage and freight forwarders have advised shippers ...
Charter brokers stand by as prolonged Suez Canal shutdown would mandate pivot to air
Airfreight charter brokers have not yet seen a clear increase in charter requests stemming from the blockage of the Suez ...
Trans-Pacific capacity crunch drives US laptop shortage
As the first-ever virtual school year begins in many schools across the United States, supply chains have turned to airfreight ...
That Sinking Feeling: Keeping shippers from running back to seafreight
With any broken relationship – whether it’s a romantic tryst or a freight consignment – there’s always the danger of ...
Will there be a modal shift to Hyperloop? Don’t answer yet…
A recent post in Tech Crunch breathlessly postulated that the planned Hyperloop One system envisioned for the Middle East will ...
Modal shift – to Hyperloop?
Flying machines that could carry packages? Preposterous!!! Today, we invite you aboard the Cargo Facts time machine (TimeCargoOne™) for a ...
Freight trains and freighter aircraft on the old Silk Road
A Silk Way West 747-8F prepares to load at Baku, once the center point of the Silk Road. Just five ...
