Front-loading flurry leads to a record month at US west coast port
June was a record month for one major US west coast port as the ‘tariff ...
PLD: TRADING UPDATEAAPL: SUPPLY CHAIN BETDHL: NEW PARTNERJBHT: HAVING FUN TO WIN ACROSS THE BOARD JBHT: 'BEING PREPARED FOR THE NEXT UPTICK IN DEMAND' JBHT: BUYBACKS UPDATEJBHT: PEAK SEASON JBHT: PARING SOME LOSSESJBHT: RISING COSTS HERE TO STAY JBHT: EQUIPMENT UTILISATION RISK JBHT: NO STONE LEFT UNTURNED JBHT: COST SAVINGS ON THE AGENDAJBHT: QUESTION TIMEJBHT: RESILIENT INTERMODAL OPERATIONSJBHT: ADDED COMPLEXITY JBHT: 'CHALLENGING AND UNPREDICTABLE ENVIRONMENT'JBHT: CONF CALL STARTSJBHT: CONF CALL
PLD: TRADING UPDATEAAPL: SUPPLY CHAIN BETDHL: NEW PARTNERJBHT: HAVING FUN TO WIN ACROSS THE BOARD JBHT: 'BEING PREPARED FOR THE NEXT UPTICK IN DEMAND' JBHT: BUYBACKS UPDATEJBHT: PEAK SEASON JBHT: PARING SOME LOSSESJBHT: RISING COSTS HERE TO STAY JBHT: EQUIPMENT UTILISATION RISK JBHT: NO STONE LEFT UNTURNED JBHT: COST SAVINGS ON THE AGENDAJBHT: QUESTION TIMEJBHT: RESILIENT INTERMODAL OPERATIONSJBHT: ADDED COMPLEXITY JBHT: 'CHALLENGING AND UNPREDICTABLE ENVIRONMENT'JBHT: CONF CALL STARTSJBHT: CONF CALL
Yet another strike. On Monday, some 100 truck drivers and warehouse workers in Los Angeles and Long Beach plan to down tools for at least a week. Their initial focus is XPO Logistics, outside whose terminal they will picket on Monday, before moving on to Intermodal Bridge Transport and California Cartage Co. The workers say “greedy corporations” are exploiting workers through “contracting out, misclassification, temporary staffing and wage theft schemes”. The ports, however, claim strikes have minimal effect.
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