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Container Shipping Shortage Triggers Freight Rate Spike Of 500 Percent: The Worst Is Still Ahead
The global shipping industry is facing the worst crisis in the history of container freight – and a massive wave of disruptions is ahead. According to the big boss of a major logistics business, Rob Lewis, the operations director of …
SUPPLY CHAIN RISKS: SHIPPING CONTAINERS FALL OF SHIPS, PLUNGE OVERBOARD
by Mac Slavo of SHTFplan The shipping industry is seeing the biggest spike in lost containers in seven years. Shipping containers are plunging into the ocean in overwhelming numbers threatening to overwhelm the supply chain and increase already rising prices. If you haven’t …
RANKED: Top 10 Countries with the Largest Shipping Fleets
by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors There are a few different ways to measure the size of a shipping fleet. For this list, I chose to rank countries based not on the number of vessels in their fleets but …
Amazon now charges PRIME members for one day shipping if you do not get to $35?
I am guessing under $35, you now get charged for one day. But this just changed within the last EDIT: two days. It used to be FREE even under $35. View post on imgur.com Same-Day Delivery Rates Same-Day Delivery is …
Gold Demand Coming Back! Swiss Refiners Finally Shipping Gold To China For 1st Time Since Sept 2020
Wall St. For Main St., Released on 4/5/21 Last week Reuters broke the story how Indian physical gold demand had surged 471% in March compared to a year ago. Exclusive: India’s March gold imports surge 471% to a record 160 …
Global 40 ft shipping container rates so far don’t support 2h19 rebound story
global 40 ft shipping container rates so far don't support 2h19 rebound story pic.twitter.com/SHvUawcZzu — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 21, 2019 probably not a good thing pic.twitter.com/aOUIRhrg2h — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) April 20, 2019 can't ignore what's happening to the auto industry …
Trump’s Executive Order Is A Gamechanger For Oil Shipping
By Irina Slav President Donald Trump has signed an executive order seeking to limit states’ powers in the approval or rejection of new oil and gas pipeline projects. CNBC reports the signing was scheduled for a trip to Texas yesterday, and expectations …
A Perfect Storm Is Developing Over Container Shipping
via Zerohedge: The slowdown in global trade began many quarters before the Trump administration launched a trade war with China last May. The primary cause of the downturn is sharp declines in intra-Asian trade – mostly due to China’s deteriorating economy. While equity markets around the world …
What happens When You Bury a Shipping Container, a Cautionary Tale – Burying the Box, SHTF Shipping Container Tips
via PJ As a child my first concept of prepping was a basement in a large log cabin sort of house in which lived some friends of our family. The stairs in the house were wooden and unfinished, the type you …
World’s Largest Shipping Line Says Brace For Terrible 2019!
Is there anything happening in the global economy that we should be concerned of? Or just a couple bumps in the road? Things aren’t looking good in the shipping industry. Even the world’s biggest shipping link has cautioned preparation for …
Ocean Shipping Rates Plunge: Just A Blip Or The End Of Globalization?
by John Rubino The Baltic Dry Index represents the cost of renting an ocean-going container ship to move goods from, say, Chinese factories to the Port of Los Angeles. The more stuff being made and sold, the higher the demand …
How Shipping Pollutes as Much as all the Cars in the World but they are Exempt
by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Hi Martin, Happy Holidays. First of all thank-you, you and Socrates are amazing, I have all the wrong instincts as a trader but since I have been following you I have finally turned that around. Regarding global …
Inflection Point: Shipping rates are crashing again, crude crashed, bitcoin crashed, stocks crashed last month, commodities are in turmoil, etc…
Shipping rates are crashing again, crude crashed, bitcoin crashed, stocks crashed last month, commodities are in turmoil, etc… Why is all happening in "the greatest economy ever." Could markets be at a turning point? I think that is a high …
Amazon drops $25 minimum for Free Shipping through Holiday Season… Target $TGT also has free 2-day shipping.
Bold move, gonna shave off quite a bit of Walmart’s top line this quarter since a big appeal of their eCommerce business is offering Free Shipping to customers without the need to buy a membership. Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2018/11/05/amazon-drops-25-minimum-free-shipping-through-holiday-season/1889512002/ Target …
China tariff effects started showing up in shipping data months ago
by NineteenEighty9 China’s latest report on economic growth fell short of expectations, but for those who monitor traffic on the global water highways, the news was not a surprise. In fact, freight and shipping data over the last several months …
If the only reason you pay for Amazon Prime is because of 2-day shipping, there is a good chance it’s a smarter financial move for you to cancel it than continue.
by 83wonder I’ve paid for prime since it was available, and lately I’ve noticed it’s gotten increasingly worse with shipping. FYI – Prime doesn’t mean you will get an item in 2 days, it means you should get the item 2 days after it ships, …
Rising Shipping Costs Threaten Stocks
BY PATRICK WATSON This month, my wife and I drove from Austin to Memphis. Going across Arkansas, the number of trucks seemed quite high. We finally started counting and found commercial trucks outnumbered passenger vehicles by about 2-1. I don’t know …