How to Trade With a Dragon
Momentum to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) froze thanks to the tone and tenor of President Trump. An “America first” approach driving a renegotiation of [...]
Momentum to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) froze thanks to the tone and tenor of President Trump. An “America first” approach driving a renegotiation of [...]
Preventing cargo loss and contributing to service quality are not incompatible objectives. Conexbird has developed and patented technology that automates the surveillance of the cargo loading and [...]
Canada’s supply chain gateway ports are enagegd in a boxing match between current title holders and contenders and intermodal transportation drives growth. Rather than relegating this [...]
Trade agreements lift cool cargo volume. As a visit to Granville Island Market demonstrates the world’s hunger for fresh fruit, meat and perishable foods has [...]
Authors Philip Davies, Principal, Davies Transportation Consulting Inc. and Michael E Kieran Transportation Consulting Principal IBI Group presented a paper on “Port Congestion and Drayage [...]
The trucking drayage sector is vital to the cargo fluidity of Canada’s dominant container trade served by Port of Vancouver as the conduit through the [...]
A Inland terminal can drive gateway growth. Economist Phil Davies observed, “Total North American Pacific Coast container traffic reached 24.7 million TEU’s in 2014, finally [...]
The Port of Prince Rupert trade & learning gateway supports the increased demand for effective logistics solutions. Total West Coast container traffic reached 24.7 million [...]
Port congestion and drayage efficiency issues have re-emerged as significant challenges for North American container ports with the recovery of container traffic to previous peaks. [...]
The impact of the Panama Canal expansion project on global supply chains has been a subject of intense interest in the shipping sector. Panama Canal [...]
The topic of port trucking strikes has generated considerable interest from freight shippers. The Surface Annual Transportation Annual Review survey results revealed that problems at marine container [...]
For those engaged in international trade development, the topic of the economic impact of a port trucking strike quickly arises when there is a severe disruption [...]
There is a “port trucking crisis in North America” writes Phil Davies of Davies Transportation Consulting. The February 2014 action by port truckers in Vancouver is not [...]
The Port of Vancouver logistics sector has been key to maintaining the port's lead as Canada’s predominate container gateway and acting a critical global supply [...]
Market segmentation and competitiveness for ports are an important international trade development topic. It was discussed in research findings by Phil Davies at the 5th Metrans International [...]
Container terminal reservation system performance is an important topic impacting the performance of global supply chains. Research results presented by Phil Davies at the 5th Metrans International Urban Freight [...]
Cool and refrigerated cargoes are used to meet the world’s hunger for fresh fruit and perishable foods. Complex global supply chains have emerged, and the [...]
On the important topic of West Coast container port competitiveness, this paper by Phil Davies analyzes the market performance of two West Coast port complexes – Vancouver [...]
An evaluation of the factors determining container port competitiveness of the North American West Coast through the port’s market shares can be challenging. Lack of [...]
The subject of large container ships is discussed in this September 5, 2012 Canadian Sailings article. The article Big, young ships flex container muscles suggests that mammoth container ships [...]
Conventional wisdom on Pacific Coast container port competitiveness suggests that the routing of container traffic routing via West Coast ports is highly sensitive to transportation [...]
The FMC inquiry threatens BC container trade and blows it onto the rocks. At first glance, the US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) inquiry appears to be one [...]