Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor | Feb 13, 2017 3:53PM EST Non-vessel-operating common carriers are handling more and more Asian imports to the United States, now nearly 43 percent compared with 29 percent a decade ago, as even the largest container lines are unable to satisfy the needs of their regular customers during periods of peak
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Phillip Inman Economics correspondent Friday 20 January 2017 11.21 EST GDP growth improved to 6.8% but only after a 19% increase in public investment and a lighter touch on real estate borrowing The silver lining in China’s disappointing 2016 growth figures was the pickup in performance at the end of the year. Or so it seems.
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Jan 25, 2017 by Darrell Etherington Amazon has begun shipping products from Chinese merchant partners to its U.S. warehouses via ocean freighters, the Wall Street Journal reports. This is something it used to outsource exclusively, and another piece of the overall shipping and logistics picture that it’s now controlling directly, at least in part. Amazon doesn’t own
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