Will the coronavirus impact supply chains?

Along with the tragic human impact of the coronavirus, importers of goods from China around the world should also be paying attention to potential supply chain impacts. Buyers, carriers, and supply chain managers foresaw and adjusted for the expected slowdown in China related to the Chinese New Year. Now, depending on the spread of the… Read more »

Christmas Newsletter

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Supply chain choices do make a difference.

Have you ever wondered where your multimodal cargo is at most theft risk while being transported? If you have not, you should, or would be best served to have someone on the team who does wonder about such things. It can help your company make the wisest choices when it comes down to developing a… Read more »

Seven Things People Get Wrong About Cargo Insurance

There are things people incorrectly believe about cargo insurance. Regrettably, for a product so many businesses use, there is little training and education given to procure and use it. In this article, I am going to single out the misconceptions I have seen most often over the years. Cargo insurance insures everything to do with… Read more »

Here’s Why You Should Have Air, Land and Sea Cargo Insurance

Whether you’re sending a small shipment a few states away by land or putting together a large shipment that’s going to travel halfway across the world by air or sea, you should always invest in land, air, and marine cargo insurance. You never know what might happen to your cargo while it’s working its way… Read more »

Cargo Theft is a Serious Issue

Cargo theft has been an issue long since long before you or I were alive. Centuries ago, pirates used to seize ships for the purpose of stealing whatever was on them, and men on horseback used to ride up to stagecoaches and steal whatever they could get from them. However, cargo theft isn’t a problem… Read more »

World Oceans Day is Coming!

This article is getting re-released in honor of ‘World Ocean Day’ https://www.worldoceansday.org/ coming on Saturday, June 08, 2019. If you read this article the first go–around last year, you can skip straight to the bottom to a link for a great webpage. If you have not read it, please do. It’s nothing that will make… Read more »