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A dock labour strike that would shut down six out of 10 of the busiest ports in the USA just weeks before the presidential election is looking increasingly likely, according to a report in the American Journal of Transportation, sending jitters across already stressed supply chains, and the U-Freight Group is considering contingency plans should…

Writing on the Splash247 website, Sam Chambers reports that the World Bank has produced an index that correlates disruption in container shipping with increases in freight rates. With our large portfolio of ocean freight forwarding and logistics services, the U-Freight Group has seen a period of unprecedented disruption for liner shipping, which in turn has…