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If there's anything consistent about trade regulations, it's that you must stay up to date on any changes that might affect your organization. Understanding the basics of trade compliance can make it easier to keep up with updates, changes, and additions to trade laws.

The logistics real estate market is experiencing a fast return to growth, driven by strong demand for space that is expected to continue, according to data from logistics real estate firm Prologis, released this week.

At C.H. Robinson, we stay close to our customers as we continue to prepare them for the new reality post-Brexit. Our goal is to help them avoid potential disruptions in their shipping process and to serve their needs in the most efficient way. However, we realise that not all businesses are equally prepared for the upcoming changes Brexit will bring to their customs procedures and may still wonder what this could mean for their own shipping processes.

The world's container liner business is now so consolidated that it can deftly match vessel capacity to cargo demand. This change - courtesy of mergers and alliances - is structural, not cyclical. If there's a single thesis for container shipping in 2020, that is it.

Source: Freightwaves

A shipment of Pfizer Inc.'s (NYSE: PFE) COVID-19 vaccine is scheduled to arrive at a U.S. territory in the Caribbean on Monday aboard an American Airlines flight, the company said. 

United Airlines' (NYSE: UAL) decision to convert some cargo-only flights between Asia and San Francisco to passenger service and resume nonstop service between the West Coast city and Shanghai will provide some much-needed capacity and speed for businesses desperate to move goods by air.

Source: Freightwaves

No one predicted a U.S. import surge in the middle of a pandemic - but it's happening. The big question now is: How long can this last? The answer has key implications for ocean spot freight rates and contract renewals, port throughput, and landside volumes for trucking and rail.

In this podcast we'll discuss global trade, tariffs, the coronavirus, the U.S. presidential election, and the stagnant worldwide economy with Kevin Doucette, who oversees North American trade policy for C.H. Robinson.

Major U.S. passenger airlines are rehearsing final plans, brushing up on procedures and lining up the right equipment and personnel to support the worldwide distribution of COVID-19 vaccines at a variety of required temperatures.

Source: Freightwaves

Get the global trade projection and other details about freighter demand in this infographic.

LATAM Cargo South America's largest freighter operator, has started a weekly flight between Miami and the Florianopolis airport in southern Brazil.

Source: American Shipper

Cathay Pacific, the fifth largest cargo airline in the world in terms of shipment volume, is reshuffling its cargo team as it looks to capture more business during a period of anemic passenger travel because of the coronavirus pandemic.

If you're a U.S. company importing from China, you may have tens of thousands or even millions in tariff refunds waiting for you. With two-thirds of Chinese origin goods subject to Section 301 tariffs, companies large and small have been impacted since they were implemented in 2018 amid a U.S.-China trade war.

President-elect Joe Biden and his aides are warning that the White House's unwillingness to facilitate the transition to a new administration could create logistics problems that delay distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine and cost thousands of lives.

Source: Freightwaves

With the news that pharmaceutical firms Pfizer and Moderna claimed to have created effective Covid-19 vaccines, public health leaders are turning their attention to the colossal challenge of building a supply chain to whisk the life-saving medicine around the globe in the coming months.

Source: American Shipper

Airlines fight to exit 'intensive care'

Despite signs of modest improvement in passenger traffic and the lifting of many coronavirus restrictions, airlines aren't relaxing efforts to shore up balance sheets and restructure in hopes of remaining solvent until demand returns in a meaningful way years from now.

Source: American Shipper

COVID-19 threatens Hawaii's sole interisland ocean transportation provider

Young Brothers will curtail service without rapid $25 million infusion of CARES Act funding from state regulators.

Smart trade compliance decisions require up-to-date information. C.H. Robinson experts cover U.S. export restrictions, duty mitigation strategies, 2021 trade changes, and more in this on-demand webinar.

U.S. businesses continue to grapple with pandemic-induced supply chain challenges that will only get worse as peak shipping season gets underway, according to a survey of supply chain professionals released earlier this month.

Source: DC Velocity

"The ships are 100% full. The containers are 100% full. You can't get a container built. You can't pick up a ship from the spot market. The whole container-shipping cycle is at absolutely full pulse," exclaimed Jeremy Nixon, CEO of Ocean Network Express (ONE), the world's sixth-largest container line.

Planning for Mexico-U.S. Cross-Border Capacity

Shipping group promotes standardized e-bill of lading

Source: American Shipper

The battle for Asian containerized exports rages on between West and East Coast ports. The East had been steadily gaining ground, but COVID-19 is changing the balance in favor of the West, at least in the short term.

SAL Heavy Lift is an expert at transporting the largest cargoes across the world's oceans, but its biggest lift in recent years has been to digitize complex administrative processes that have long weighed down the project cargo industry.

U.S. airlines are taking advantage of a mild loosening in Chinese aviation restrictions to restart service to mainland China, a key market for rebuilding revenues and for shippers with goods to move.

The good news is that shipping stocks seem to be more leveraged to a post-COVID global recovery than most other equities. The bad news is that shipping stocks seem to be more leveraged to mid-COVID global fallout than most other equities.

Source: Freightwaves

A New York district court overseeing the bankruptcy of LATAM Airlines Group (NYSE: LTM) approved a financing proposal to allow the Chilean carrier to access $2.45 billion for countering the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.