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 […]
GLOBAL LOGISTICS ISSUES The definition of chaos is “Complete disorder and confusion”. This is the state of the global logistics world right now. It seems that every couple of weeks a new event happens that causes a hiccup in global shipping. From the Ever Given blocking the Suez Canal for 6 days to a Covid […]
GLOBAL LOGISTICS ISSUES There are transportation bottlenecks all over the United States and the world right now. Vessels are arriving late and leaving late on both the east and west coast of the United States. This is happening from/to Asia and Europe. Vessels are also delayed from/to Asia to Europe and this is impacting available […]
In November 2001 U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched a government- private sector partnership called the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT). The joint initiative is designed to improve the security of cargo entering the United States without inhibiting the flow of trade. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) requires participants to continually assess, develop, and […]