Mar 27, 2020
— IAM received this summary today from Pace LLP, the Association's lobbying arm in Washington, DC. This summary focuses on the business and employer provisions, and not the individual/healthcare areas. We will continue to search for application and process avenues for IAM members seeking financial and other assistance.
Mar 27, 2020
— Wheaton has acquired Arpin Van Lines to immediately expand The Wheaton Group network. The new partnership will allow all five brands under The Wheaton Group umbrella to better serve customers across the country with increased capacity.
Mar 27, 2020
— Nigeria will now only allow ships that have been at sea for more than two weeks to dock in its ports to prevent the spread of coronavirus. All crew entering Nigerian waters will be tested for the virus by local port health authorities.
Mar 26, 2020
— This webinar, available now on IAM Learning, is a recording of a discussion panel with industry leaders and your peers that explores a topic of paramount importance – the U.S. DoD decision to halt all moves worldwide. This decision will have significant ramifications, and we want you to hear the whole story.
Mar 26, 2020
— The national governments in the USMCA zone, the US, Mexico and Canada, have closed their borders with each other to non-essential traffic, but trucks are free to roll across. However, after a spike, trucking activity is expected to slow down as the repercussions of the economic shutdown hit demand.
Mar 26, 2020
— The moving industry in the United States and Canada is continuing to carry out household goods moves as guidelines classify transport as an essential service.
Mar 26, 2020
— The canal has created teams with the necessary staffing levels to maintain the safe operation of the waterway and provide continuous service to international trade. The plan includes special transport for its teams to reduce risk of infection.
Mar 26, 2020
— Several major Indian ports, including those operated by Adani Ports, the country’s largest private port operator, have declared force majeure as the country started a three-week lockdown in an attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
Mar 26, 2020
— The most serious measures taken by national governments in times of peace aimed at halting the spread of COVID-19, have resulted in severe restrictions of moving industry operations in many European countries.
Mar 25, 2020
— The Malaysian government has decided to extend the movement control order (MCO) for another two weeks until April 14, says the Prime Minister.
Mar 25, 2020
— MELCON Worldwide Logistics Inc. (Philippines) Reports:
As you may be aware, the Philippine government declared an enhanced community quarantine in Luzon, Philippines to address the spread of the COVID-19 virus. All non-essential businesses were ordered closed and all workers enjoined to stay home for self-quarantine from 15 March 2020 to 14 April 2020.
Mar 24, 2020
— Ships and their crews must be able to trade freely with minimal port restrictions to ensure supply lines don’t freeze up while the coronavirus shuts down much of the globe,shipping and port officials said on Tuesday. After draconian steps to stop the spread of the virus, China’s economy is slowly coming back online but logistics chains are backing up in other parts of the world.
Mar 24, 2020
— “ATRI’s real-time GPS data comes from more than a million trucks, allowing us to analyze freight flows, and so far in March, what we are seeing is an unprecedented level of truck movement,” said ATRI President and COO Rebecca Brewster. “Not only are trucks continuing to move, but they are doing so at speeds well in excess of normal traffic patterns.”
Mar 24, 2020
— The UK is banning people from leaving their homes apart from for a few "very limited" reasons, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday, as he imposed the most stringent restrictions seen in Britain since the end of World War II. Police will break up public gatherings and fine people flouting rules, Johnson said in a remarkable televised statement on Monday evening, dramatically ramping up the country's response to the growing coronavirus pandemic.
Mar 24, 2020
— Masterpiece International Reports: Due to the effect COVID-19 is having on the Trade industry, U.S. Customs and Border Protection ("CBP") is accepting requests for duty-payment extensions.
Mar 24, 2020
— In a bid to tackle the country’s coronavirus outbreak, around 750 million people are subject to travel and work restrictions, currently until 31 March. “Effective tonight, 80% of India will be under complete lockdown – everyone is working from home,” said Naveen Prakash, director of Global Logistics Solutions India.
Mar 24, 2020
— Royal Relocations reports: Due to the rampant Covid 19 outbreak the government of Malaysia had ordered a country wide lockdown starting today 18th March to 31st March.
Mar 23, 2020
— Southwest Movers Association (SMA) staff is working with local and statewide leaders to define moving and relocation services as “essential.”
Mar 23, 2020
— Register today and connect with industry leaders and your peers on a topic of paramount importance – the DoD decision to halt all moves worldwide. This decision will have significant ramifications and we want you to join us in order to listen and give us your feedback on how it affects you and your business.
Mar 23, 2020
— A day after Singapore confirmed its first two coronavirus-related deaths, the country said it would close its borders to short-term visitors and some foreign labourers from 11:59pm (15:59 GMT) on Monday to help the limit the spread of the disease.
Mar 23, 2020
— The 2005-built 957 teu feeder boxship MSC Talia F was boarded by pirates in Gulf of Guinea on Sunday and seven of the 17 crew onboard the vessel were taken by the attackers.
Mar 23, 2020
— We have been notified by the Governor's office that movers are NOT subject to the Executive Order of non-essential businesses. It is not included in the printed order, but we have been notified and he verbally stated in his television address today that transportation services are essential services.
Mar 23, 2020
— Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Honduran government has ordered all businesses to close operations from days starting Monday March 17th until Sunday March 29th.
Mar 23, 2020
— In a joint letter to the the UN, the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) say the world’s governments must ensure ports remain open, while facilitating crew changes with as few obstacles as possible.
Mar 23, 2020
— If a State officer or regulator (“official”), at any time, orders that you stop the moving service, you shall agree to do so immediately, and also to comply with any other directive provided by the official. Officials are working to keep us safe and preserve the health of California citizens.
Mar 23, 2020
— The Panamanian President Laurentino Cortizo, ordered the suspension of all international flights, for 30 days, effective Sunday, March 22, at 11:59 p.m. Although, all freight, humanitarian and domestic flights will remain active.
Mar 20, 2020
— IAM encourages all members to look at and obey their local laws. That said, some are suggesting that transportation in general might be an essential service and not subject to all shelter-in-place laws. Remember that this is a dynamic situation and things can change.
Mar 20, 2020
— New York orders all non-essential businesses to close and workers to stay home, the day after California imposed "shelter in place" across the state. Florida counties .closing beaches, while governor resists issuing order
Mar 20, 2020
— Last night, Pennsylvania’s Governor Wolf became the first Governor to issue an order effectively requiring all non-life sustaining businesses to close their physical locations and move to a virtual/telework business model to attempt to stem the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Shortly after, Governor Newsom issued an order to California residents to “stay at home” except as needed to maintain continuity of operations of critical businesses. In his Order, Gov. Newsom specifically recognized that “the supply chain must continue.”
Mar 20, 2020
— “Humans are social animals,” professor Ian Hickie at the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre told CNBC Make It. “Prolonged quarantine or social isolation (without compensatory methods in place) will exacerbate anxiety, depression and a sense of helplessness.”
Mar 19, 2020
— Terminals and labor at the Los Angeles/Long Beach ports continue to operate. The ILWU has indicated that they wish to continue working per the contract but have requested additional safety equipment be deployed. General commodity volume from Asia has improved, a sign that China is producing again.
Mar 19, 2020
— The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued an expanded national emergency declaration to provide hours-of-service regulatory relief to commercial vehicle drivers transporting emergency relief in response to the nationwide coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
Mar 19, 2020
— Maritime officials in Queensland, Australia have ordered all foreign trading ships to essentially self-quarantine before entering their ports due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Mar 19, 2020
— China has dramatically tightened quarantine control on international cargo ships calling at the country’s ports with Splash understanding many major ports – including the largest two, Ningbo-Zhoushan and Shanghai – have instituted a 14-day restriction for any ship or person onboard calling from the worst affected coronavirus-hit countries.
Mar 19, 2020
— The impact on the moving and relocation industry continues to worsen as Germany announced last night that it was closing its border to other European Union citizens and governments throughout Europe take increasingly stricter action to control the threat of COVID-19.
Mar 18, 2020
— IAM has received reports of extra detention and demurrage in France due to problems associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The country is experiencing delays as it deals with managing the spread of contagion, as well as workers not consistently being available. If you have news about how your area is affected by this pandemic, please report it to IAM so we can make it widely known.
Mar 18, 2020
— The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today issued an expanded national emergency declaration to provide hours-of-service regulatory relief to commercial vehicle drivers transporting emergency relief in response to the nationwide coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
Mar 18, 2020
— South Africa is holding the cruise liner MV AidAmira and a cargo vessel off Cape Town after a crew member on board one of the ships showed signs of the new coronavirus, national ports operator Transnet said on Tuesday.
Mar 17, 2020
— Across the board, trucking executives are sounding the alarm on how coronavirus will affect their business, according to the Bank of American Truck Shipper Survey released Friday.
Mar 17, 2020
— The Pentagon is already helping combat the coronavirus outbreak in the United States and is considering ways to do more. But the military faces limits. Its health care system is geared more toward handling combat casualties than infectious diseases. And there are logistical and legal concerns about expanding the military’s role in civilian affairs, such as tasking it with enforcing quarantines.
Mar 17, 2020
— More airlines are resorting to using passenger aircraft as makeshift freighters, as forwarders emphasise borders “remain open” for cargo.
Mar 16, 2020
— Available containers at many major ports around the world outside of China stand at record lows, according to new data published today. The massive box imbalance brought about by the trade war and then the coronavirus sees Chinese ports rammed full of boxes waiting to move, while carriers are urgently deploying extra tonnage to other hubs where equipment shortages are now at their lowest levels ever.
Mar 14, 2020
— The Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved new travel restrictions for service members, DoD civilians, and their families assigned to DoD installations, facilities and surrounding areas within the United States and its territories. This restriction will halt all domestic travel, including Permanent Change of Station, and Temporary Duty.
Mar 12, 2020
— The EuRA Conference in Seville 2020 is being postponed until 2021 due the coronavirus crisis. The dates will be March 23rd to 26th 2021.
Mar 12, 2020
— Severe congestion at the terminals combined with massive traffic on roads leading to the ports have made Lagos a very expensive place to move goods. A recent study shows local transport costs in Lagos are more than seven times higher than in Tema in Ghana and Durban in South Africa, largely thanks to perpetual congestion at the port.
Mar 11, 2020
— Agility has China updates broken out by ocean and air freight, overall China issues, as well as their own approach and useful resources.
Mar 6, 2020
— In light of a possible generalized lockdown and real concerns for the health of our Affiliates, the FIDI Board feels that we don’t have the choice but to postpone the 2020 FIDI Conference, scheduled in Osaka, to next year.
Mar 6, 2020
— Russia has ordered the mandatory disinfection of ships arriving at the Black Sea ports of Novorossiisk and Yuzhnaya Ozereyevka from Iran, Italy and South Korea because of the coronavirus, a document seen by Reuters showed.
Mar 5, 2020
— Intouch Relocations sent a status update for the Middle East and Africa, as well as what precautions they are taking and what they recommend to their clients.
Mar 3, 2020
— Thomas Coupat, China Country Manager at AGS Four Winds Shanghai, shares his experience dealing with the current climate with the COVID-19 situation in China.
Mar 3, 2020
— The financial cost of the coronavirus outbreak to container lines is now approaching the $2bn mark, according to new research from SeaIntelligence Consulting. Up to the beginning of this month, the analyst estimates that the industry has lost 1.9m teu in volumes since the onset of the crisis.
Mar 3, 2020
— COVID-19 and its impact on supply chains is ongoing and fluid. Radiant Clipper and the Radiant Network remain committed to providing our customers with customized supply chain solutions that deliver, whatever the challenge. The coming weeks will require expertise in creative solutions for successful movement in and out of affected areas of the world.
Feb 28, 2020
— China’s top container ports are loosening the backlog of cargoes on their docks as workers return to their posts after coronavirus travel curbs that kept them away and jammed up global supply chains have been eased.
Feb 28, 2020
— U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Elaine Chao outlined the department’s latest strategy to address the increasing threat posed by the coronavirus outbreak. Chao said that while the main responsibility for coordinating response efforts lies with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, DOT’s coordinating role is dealing primarily with airlines.
Feb 28, 2020
— Coronavirus is beginning to impact shipping operations in the Indian subcontinent. Blanked westbound Asia-North Europe sailings mean export containers out of India that tranship at Colombo are not being picked up.
Feb 28, 2020
— The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak will distort container flows and global equipment fleet balance for at least another 90 to 120 days, according to Gregory Tuthill, chief commercial officer at SeaCube Containers.
Feb 27, 2020
— A few weeks ago, The Source looked at the effects the Coronavirus, now called COVID-19, was having or was expected to have on certain transportation-related areas, including within supply chains. In this instance, the potential for supply chain disruption was and remains extraordinarily high. But significant risks to your supply chain—whether they be from the outbreak of a disease, natural disasters, political unrest, war, cyber attack, or other circumstances—always exist.
Feb 27, 2020
— The list of countries prohibiting flights into and out of China is growing every day because of the coronavirus. It’s expected that pet exports from these destinations would be delayed. There is a ripple effect.
Feb 27, 2020
— Asian Tigers-Hong Kong CEO Rob Chipman talks with Bloomberg Television about the impact of Coronavirus on the Hong Kong relocation business.
Feb 25, 2020
— Shots were fired at a boxship departing West Africa on Friday in the latest violent attack to hit merchant shipping in the piracy prone area.
Feb 25, 2020
— The coronavirus is set to wipe a “chilling” 1.7m teu of container business, according to new research from Copenhagen-based Sea-Intelligence. The 1.7m teu loss is equal to 1% of the total global volume in 2019, meaning the virus is thus far on track to reduce global container growth in 2020 by 1 percentage point.
Feb 5, 2020
— On the container front, analysts at Alphaliner are warning that the coronavirus will reduce container cargo volumes at Chinese ports – including Hong Kong – by over 6m teu in the first quarter of 2020. This volume contraction is expected to reduce global container throughput growth by at least 0.7% for the full year.
May 24, 2019
— This is the eighth in a series of op-eds that IAM is running to shed additional light on problems associated with privatizing the household goods program to a single source contractor.
May 17, 2019
— This is the seventh in a series of op-eds that IAM is running to shed additional light on problems associated with privatizing the household goods program to a single source contractor.
May 10, 2019
— This is the sixth in a series of op-eds that IAM is running to shed additional light on problems associated with privatizing the household goods program to a single source contractor.
May 3, 2019
— This is the fifth in a series of op-eds that IAM is running to shed additional light on problems associated with privatizing the household goods program to a single source contractor.
Apr 26, 2019
— This is the fourth in a series of op-eds that IAM is running to shed additional light on problems associated with privatizing the household goods program to a single source contractor.
Apr 19, 2019
— This is the third in a series of op-eds that IAM is running to shed additional light on problems associated with privatizing the household goods program to a single source contractor.
Apr 12, 2019
— This is the second in a series of op-eds that IAM is running to shed additional light on problems associated with privatizing the household goods program to a single source contractor.
Apr 5, 2019
— This is the first in a series of op-eds that IAM is running to shed additional light on problems associated with privatizing the household goods program to a single source contractor.
Mar 29, 2019
— USTRANSCOM Public Affairs published a press release highlighting GEN Lyons’ meeting with CEOs from various moving companies who support DoD household goods movement, and a separate meeting with moving industry trade associations. The press release is not an accurate account of the events of those meetings. Industry attendees believe the tone of the press release implied industry’s support to the general’s decision to award a contract to a single provider. To be clear, most of DoD’s current household goods service providers do not support this initiative.
— According to a decree adopted on March 9th by Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte restricting the ability to move across the country affected by COVID-19, freight is considered an economically viable activity and drivers are allowed to enter, exit and move goods in the designated quarantine areas for the purpose of transporting, loading and unloading of goods.
