The record for largest airplane has been broken. On Saturday, April 13th at 6:58AM, PST, the longtime record was shattered when Stratolaunch System’s “launch pad in the sky” took flight from the Mojave Air and Space Port. The aircraft...
UPDATE 4/20/2019: On April 11, Boeing announced that it had created a software fix designed to prevent a repeat of the tragic crashes of two 737 MAX 8 planes over the past six months. The aerospace giant conducted 96...
It’s hard to believe we’ve been keeping an eye on the Port of Virginia since early 2016 when the infrastructure was just starting to become an issue. Under the alerts that post-Panamax vessels were going to emerge from a...
For months, logistics professionals have been concerned with the impending tariff hike on goods coming from China. Though they were supposed to start on January 1st, President Trump delayed them as talks between the two nations shows promise. The...
The Commerce Departments Bureau of Industry and Security won’t be catching up on the backlog of export license requests anytime soon. These applications must move through an approval process that is handled by myriad departments depending on the nature...
There is hardly a channel, social media post, conversation or meeting that isn’t dominated by talk of the government shutdown. From stories of unpaid workers at TSA calling in sick, to stories about the issues arising on the southern...
No, we don’t ever get tired of writing about the astonishing growth of our local Port of Virginia. Here we are, again in another January, reporting back the incredible numbers posted for 2018. While this isn’t a fiscal year...
On Friday, December 1, 2018 President Trump declared that the impending bump to 25% duties on the third list of Chinese tariffs would be postponed for 3 months moving the implementation date to March 2, 2019. The delay in...
This year we expect that peak season will persist for a longer period than in previous years, extending up to Chinese New Year (February 5, 2019 – February 19,2019) when it should slow down and recover at the first of...
Inefficiencies are at the root of the container shortages and delays in the US market. According to a study by the JOC, neither more money nor more equipment will solve the bottlenecks causing delays with container shipping in the...
