Tom Peters
Tom Peters
Power Surge
Major energy projects are firing up business at U.S. ports and terminals in the special project, heavy lift and breakbulk categori...
Car Boom
In 2018 the United States was the largest importer of cars in the world with a dollar value of $178.5 billion and the third larges...
The Boom in Plastics
The increase in the production of petrochemicals, spurred by the abundance of shale gas as feedstock and the demand for ethane &nd...
Show Me the Way
In 1975 British rock star Peter Frampton released the song, “Show Me the Way.” The hit was about a young man lost in h...
Breakbulk Rising
Maritime research consultancy Drewry suggested earlier this year in its “Multipurpose Forecaster and Annual Review” th...
Cool Tech
French container line CMA CGM, the globe’s second largest mover of temperature-controlled cargo, seems to get it when it com...
?I Want MORE?!
In Charles Dickens’ classic, Oliver Twist, young Oliver, after eating his bowl of gruel, is encouraged by his mates to do th...
COOL PORTS
Market specialist Lauren McCormick at the port of Freeport, Texas says, “The reefer trade, overall, has gone through a great...
GAME ON!
A supply chain is only as good as the sum of its parts. If there is a breakdown anywhere in the system, then the chain is flawed a...
Capacity & Velocity
(This article was originally publised in the 2017 Sept/Oct edition) Meeting the challenges of an ever-changing global supply ch...