March 4, 2024 Today is the day that new tariffs from Canada, Mexico and China are in effect. All imports from Canada will now have an additional 25% tariff with the exception of energy imports which will be at 10%. Imports from Mexico will have an additional 25% tariff on all imports with no exceptions. […]
December 30,2024 The year is ending the way it began with lots of uncertainty in the shipping world. The Houthi’s in Yemen are still attacking vessels in the Southern Red Sea. This is causing most ocean carriers to divert vessels around the Cape of Good Hope. An ILA (International Longshoreman’s Association) strike along USA East […]
August 20,2024 We are now in what we call the dog days of August. Summer holidays are ending, school is about to start, football in Europe has just begun their season and the NFL is going to start in early September. The word of the day/week/year is disruption. Here is the definition of disruption. Disturbance […]
The year is ending in a turbulent way in the world of shipping. War in the Middle East and Europe along with drought conditions in Panama have drastically impacted the maritime industry. 2024 is going to start off with a lot of uncertainty with the ocean carriers, especially on trade routes that utilize the Suez […]
Thunderbolt Director Jim Shapiro attended the 12th Annual Summit of the Project Cargo Network (PCN) that took place at The Royal Cliff Hotel in Pattaya, Thailand, from November 12th to 14th. 185 people from 60 countries attended the meeting. PCN knows how to organize a great meeting. Thanks to Rachel, Judith and the Team in […]
Hemisphere Freight Services and Thunderbolt Global Logistics, LLC teamed up together to coordinate a sensitive Art Sculpture Delivery from Queenstown, New Zealand to Dillon, Montana. The strength and value of the CLC Project Network was exhibited in this transaction.
Thunderbolt Global Logistics Director Jim Shapiro attended the 11th Annual Meeting of PCN (Project Cargo Network) from Nov. 27-29,2022 in Dubai. There were over 185 CEO’s and Senior Managers from 95 countries. He had a great time seeing old friends he hadn’t seen in 3 years and making new ones that I met while at […]
Thunderbolt Global Logistics finished a project last in late February for one of our top clients that had a critical shipment from Turkey that delivered to their customer in Seattle, Washington on the northwest coast. There was a total of 9 pieces of static cargo. The 3 largest had the following weight/dims: 17,209 kgs/Dims: 650 […]
Read Paul Abbott’s article in the Nov-Dec 2021 issue of AJOT: Planning, innovation help meet challenges in shipment of project, breakbulk cargos View the article. (Right hand page)
GLOBAL LOGISTICS ISSUES It’s Thanksgiving time in the United States. The 4th Thursday of November is a day for family and football. It’s a day we should relax and not think about the continued transportation crisis in the United States and abroad. It’s been nearly 4 months since my last update. Has much changed since […]