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12May 22
Aperture & Focus May 11th

Global and Regional Update- May 11th

Global Aperture New air cargo data suggest global demand in April fell 8% year-over-year, attributed to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, recent Covid-19 lockdowns in China, enduring labor shortages, and a growing deficit in consumer demand. The US joins Canada and…

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27Apr 22
Airport-Air Canada Plane Landing

Weekly Update: April 27, 2022

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…

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06Apr 22
Airport-Air Canada Plane Landing

Weekly Market Update: April 6, 2022

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…

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27Mar 22
North European Ports

Weekly Market Update: March 24th 2022

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…

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18Mar 22
Airport-Air Canada Plane Landing

Weekly Market Update: March 17, 2022

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…

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16Mar 22
CP Marshalling Yard-Train

Update on potencial CP rail strike

Union Members at CP Rail Vote to Authorize Strike March 7, 2022 Union members of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) have voted in favor of a strike mandate beginning March 16, 2022, if a collective bargaining agreement isn’t reached.…

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01Mar 22

Global & Regional Update: March 1 2022

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…

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23Feb 22
Truck passing Castle Mountain in Alberta

Market Update: February 23, 2021

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…

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17Feb 22
Coutts Border Crossing Blockage

Weekly Update: February 17, 2022

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…

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26Jan 22
truck-in-snow-peaked-mountains

Weekly Market Update: January 26, 2021

LATEST News Trucker protest won’t cause food shortages, government says. Transport Minister Omar Alghabra is assuring Canadians there’s no reason to fear food shortages will result from a small minority of truck drivers refusing to comply with a vaccine mandate in…

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10Jan 22
Toronto-Ontario waterfront- photo by James Wheeler

Market Update: January 10, 2022

LATEST News Economy added 55,000 jobs in December, unemployment rate 5.9 percent. The Canadian economy added 55,000 jobs in December before Covid-19 cases began spiking at the end of the month, prompting public health restrictions that forced many businesses to…

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