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Mexico nearshoring is up 60% over 2019. Here's what that means for freight brokers reading the data right.
Mexico passed China as the US's largest trading partner in 2023 and the gap has only widened. Here's the playbook brokers are using to convert nearshoring volume into bookings.
Three years into the Ukraine war, European supply chains have permanently rewired. Here's where the freight opportunity sits in 2026.
The war's first-order effects (energy, grain corridors) made the news. The second-order effects — freight reshuffling across Central and Eastern Europe — are still creating opportunity for forwarders willing to read the lane data carefully.
Panama Canal restrictions are the slowest-moving supply chain story — and the one most freight teams underprice.
Drought-driven transit caps cost $200M+ in surcharges across 2024 alone. Capacity has partly recovered in 2026, but the routing patterns shippers adopted during the squeeze are sticky.
Bunker fuel and IMO carbon rules are silently rewriting freight rates. Here's what shippers are about to ask brokers.
VLSFO prices are up 18% YoY entering Q2 2026. The IMO's intermediate carbon reduction mandates are creating new surcharge categories shippers don't fully understand yet — a wide-open consultative selling moment.
The China+1 sourcing strategy is finally showing up in shipper data. Here's where the volume actually moved.
Vietnam, India, Mexico, and Thailand all gained meaningful share of US import volume from 2020 to 2026. Here's what the BOL data reveals about which industries actually moved — and which only said they did.
Carrier alliances reshuffled in 2025. Here's how Gemini, Premier, MSC standalone, and Ocean Alliance changed your buyer's options.
The Maersk–Hapag-Lloyd "Gemini" cooperation went live in early 2025. ONE+HMM+Yang Ming formed Premier. MSC went standalone. Every shipper contract negotiated since is being affected — most don't fully understand how.
US tariffs are turbulent again. Here's the freight-team playbook for selling into uncertainty.
Section 301, Section 232, and a new wave of country-specific tariffs are turning freight planning into a daily exercise. Here's how the best brokers are positioning around the noise.
EV battery imports under HS 8507.60 doubled in two years. Here's the lane breakdown brokers should know.
South Korea, China, Japan, and Vietnam dominate US-bound EV battery shipments. The volume is high, the lane mix is unusual, and the broker conversation is genuinely consultative.
US drayage capacity is the quietest pinch point in 2026. Here's why — and what brokers are doing about it.
While ocean rates get the headlines, port-to-warehouse drayage at LA/LB, Newark, Savannah, and Houston is structurally tighter than 2019. Shippers feel it in dwell times — brokers who solve it have a clean opening.
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