Land, Sea and Air shipping / transportation news for North, Central, and South Americas
Latest News Manufacturers call for help with supply chain disruptions. Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) is calling on the federal government to provide temporary financial relief to companies impacted by supply chain disruptions, and work to resolve Buy America and…
Latest News Crisis or hiccup? Assessing the logistics impact of China lockdowns. Some experts predict ending quarantine restrictions will open cargo floodgates as airfreight feels immediate crunch. A mixed bag of circumstances and time horizons are creating diverging narratives about…
Thanks to a profitable fiscal year, airlines have continued to invest in their staff and fleet, which will buoy international freighter capacity for the time being, while recovering air passenger demand in Europe and the Americas lightens summer outlook for…
LATEST News Shanghai’s ‘grim’ Covid outbreak threatens more global supply chain disruption. The Covid-19 outbreak in Shanghai remains “extremely grim” with the ongoing lockdown of China’s financial powerhouse threatening to devastate the country’s economy and “tear apart” already very stretched…
LATEST News CP arbitration process could take weeks. Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. rail employees are back on the job, but one labour relations expert says it could take weeks before matters are settled between the country’s second-largest railway and the…
LATEST News CP issues lockout notice to Teamsters. Close to 3,000 employees of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. could be off the job early Sunday morning. Calgary-based CP Rail said in a release Wednesday that it has issued 72-hour notice to…
CP Customer Bulletin: Notice of TCRC lock-out from John Brooks, Executive Vice-President & Chief Marketing Officer /Avis de lock-out à l’intention de la CFTC de la part de John Brooks, vice-président exécutif et chef du marketing Dear customers, CP has…
Global Aperture Airspace is heavily disrupted in Eastern-Europe as the Russia-Ukraine conflict escalates, and Turkey has warned all countries against sending warships to the Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits that lead to the Black Sea—a move to partition military and economic…
LATEST News MTO grounds trucking businesses involved in ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests. The Ontario Ministry of Transportation has effectively shut down 39 trucking businesses in the wake of a crackdown on so-called Freedom Convoy protesters. Responding to questions from trucknews.com, the…
A rash of new outbreaks in South Korea, Indonesia, Denmark, and other countries will stifle near-term travel sentiments as airlines step up with more service resumptions in mid-to-late spring. Transpacific Asia-US flights are still crippled with Cathay Pacific’s reduced cargo…