US Justice Department subpoenaed top management of largest container shipping companies. The world’s biggest container shipper, Denmark’s A.P. Moller-Maersk , Germany’s Hapag Lloyd , Taiwan-based Evergreen, Hong Kong-based Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) said their executives were among those who had been subpoenaed. The United States is concerned that the proposed alliances of several major
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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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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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By: Greg Bensinger 1/29/16 Amazon.com Inc.’sAMZN -3.51% biggest quarterly profit and Wall Street’s swift punishment for missing expectations overshadowed a trend that is worth keeping an eye on. Shipping expenses rose again in the fourth quarter, and by a wider margin than many analysts expected. Overall shipping costs during the holiday quarter jumped 37% to $4.17 billion,
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Large retailers are still working through inventories built up in the first half of the year, which economists say could limit shipping ahead of the holidays. By: PAUL PAGE Updated Sept. 25, 2015 4:06 p.m. ET Some major retailers say they still are trying to pare down inventories from big buildups earlier this year, potentially
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By Robert C. Lieb and Kristin Lieb As Amazon expands into logistics services, the giant retailer is taking on more of the characteristics of a third-party logistics (3PL) company. How might that shape the industry’s competitive landscape? Amazon.com has come a long way since its founder and chief executive officer, Jeff Bezos, envisioned the company
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