Canada’s Freight Forwarding Magazine
Advocacy remains the most important item that we deliver, and this fall issue of the Forwarder magazine, dedicated to the topic of Advocacy, aims to display for the membership more of what makes CIFFA your Trusted Advisor. In this issue we cover ongoing efforts CIFFA has made over the past few very busy years on […]
Maritime July 3: California Ports Piling Up Again: Too Many Containers Sitting Too Long – American Shipper At the height of last year’s “will Christmas be canceled?” supply chain freak-out, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach – with the Biden administration’s backing – proposed a highly controversial fee on import containers that sat […]
Over the past few weeks, CIFFA’s Secretariat office has seen increased concerns with the ongoing challenges of the supply chain. Members are asking for help and guidance to deal with rising/additional costs, significant delays and an overall lack of information. CIFFA has also been contacted by government officials at both Federal and Provincial levels, seeking […]
Logistics payments and data infrastructure platform PayCargo has announced a new investment of up to $130M from funds managed by Blackstone Growth. Blackstone Growth’s investment will support the company’s continued expansion both domestically and internationally, development of new products, as well as potential growth opportunities through M&A, the company said. PayCargo’s cloud-based payments network enables […]
BILL S-211, an Act to enact the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act and to amend the Customs Tariff, had a first reading November 24, 2021 in Canada’s Senate. The Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act imposes an obligation on certain government institutions and private-sector […]
Maritime June 1: North European Box Ports at Capacity Even Before Peak Season Starts – The Loadstar With a wave of import containers expected from Shanghai’s reopening and peak season just around the corner, North Europe’s box port hubs, worryingly, remain severely congested. Huge stacks of empty containers and hundreds of export boxes have built […]
A February 2022 whitepaper from DHL discussed the topic of circularity, and its role in fashion and consumer electronics. At its heart, circularity describes a departure from the traditional produce-sell-use-waste paradigm toward more sustainability. A circular economy could be thought of as a design for an ecosystem that builds on sustainability, visibility, and multidirectional flows. […]