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Shanghai Congestion and Anticipated Peak Season Woes
For the last few months, the full lockdown of Shanghai and other cities in China due to their zero Covid policy has caused turmoil for citizens and havoc for the world supply chain and financial ecosystem. It has resulted in equipment and worker shortages, as well as...
NCBFAA Conference Recap
TOC Logistics is a proud member of the NCBFAA, the trade association representing customs brokers and freight forwarders in the United States. What is great about the NCBFAA is that while, yes, their members are our competitors, those members come from across the...
Further Impacts of China’s Lockdowns
The country-wide COVID situation in China is changing daily. TOC Logistics is in constant communication with our representatives in the country, because their staff and operations are all impacted. Unlike the United States where there were lockdown exceptions made for...
Impacts of Shanghai Shutdown on the Supply Chain
With the indefinite shutdown in Shanghai, carriers face a gap in the ability to pick up cargo and unload containers, while shippers are likewise facing challenges in producing and loading cargo. We expect our clients to continue to see delays and disruptions in the...
Europe During Wartime
The headline felt like a bit of hyperbole, until you consider more than two million people have fled Ukraine in the biggest refugee migration since World War II. The work being done by governments, NGOs and private citizens throughout Europe and beyond to absorb...
Supply Chain Impacts of Russia’s War on Ukraine
Russia's unprovoked aggression in Ukraine is a humanitarian catastrophe. The loss of life and scale of displacement have not been seen in Europe since World War II. Well over a million people have left their homes, countless more have been killed or wounded and...
AirCargo 2022 Recap from Jennifer Coulter-Lissman
This Market Advisory comes directly from TOC Logistics' Vice President, Jennifer Coulter-Lissman, who attended the 2022 AirCargo Conference. Below, she shares her thoughts about the panel she participated on. This month, I attended the AirCargo Conference, an annual...
News from Around the World
While our attention at home is focused on the effects a highly contagious COVID-19 variant is having on every type of work force, including manufacturing and logistics, it is important to continue to look outward and elsewhere for major events impacting key countries...
China’s Power Play
The past several days, stories have appeared in the news about China's crackdown on power usage by factories in several provinces. We have seen these stories and, in turn, been asked by our customers whether or not their shipments will be impacted. Further, because...
Current Warehouse Congestion and Delays
Delays are increasing as warehouse space pinches shut on the US West Coast due to record imports arriving each day. Those containers need to be unloaded and carried inland to reach distribution centers, but the lack of carriers, chassis, and truckers has forced cargo...