Ocean carriers are hungry for a slice of the growing pharma shipment pie
Pharma is “a growth market” for ocean carriers as shippers become cost- and emissions-conscious, but ...
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The United States’ much-vaunted intermodal network is in an utter mess, according to a pile of testimonies delivered to the Surface Transportation Board, and detailed in this excoriating commentary, Material Handling & Logistics, by logistics consultant David Sparkman. He writes that the “six major freight railroads [in North America] appear to be committing slow-motion suicide”. Shippers are simply fed up with declining service levels, terrible schedule reliability and prices that relentlessly increase, and, in frustration, are using road as the ...
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