As we approach retail season. Sunset expects capacity to reduce, demand to increase, and costs to increase over the next 60 days. Expect capacity to loosen toward the end of the year, intermodal to remain tight and import demand to slow as we near the end of 2022 into 2023
From Sunset’s Strategic Account Management Team: Early Thursday, a tentative deal was reached with unions and management to avert a railroad strike. A verbal agreement was reached by both sides at 2:30AM ET. Expectations are for intermodal gates to open, and rail lines to continue accepting freight. This strike should not cause an impact to…
The following insights are provided by Sunset’s Strategic Account Management team for August 2022 market conditions: The supply-demand balance is shifting; seeing rates top out and slow in coming months. Downward fluctuations in price of fuel should provide additional relief in the short-term. CVSA’s Brake Safety is August 21-27, and will noticeably impact capacity.
Sunset Transportation, a certified Women-Owned Business Enterprise (WBENC), second-generation third party logistics (3PL) company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, was voted into the Inbound Logistics Top 10 3PL Excellence Awards for the fifth time in five years, landing in the #5 spot.
The Journal of Commerce (JOC) provides an in-depth quarterly report into the US intermodal market to facilitate conversations between shippers and logistics companies about transportation modal decisions. The JOC Intermodal Savings Index — the Spot Index and the Contract Index — measures how much an average shipper should anticipate saving on the rail versus over-the-road…
Sunset Transportation joins an exclusive group of less than 1% of all U.S. logistics companies who hold Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) certification. By working with a C-TPAT-certified 3PL, shippers are ensured their northbound cross-border freight adheres and is subject to U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) policies and procedures in over ten (10)…
Sunset Transportation is proud to partner with Parade, the leader in capacity management software for freight brokers, to ensure our carriers are shown the best loads, allowing the brokerage to source and secure capacity more strategically and better than before. Parade aggregates carrier information across multiple channels, including Sunset’s internal data, carrier preferences and power…
The following report was written by the Sunset Transportation cross-border team, stationed at the World Trade border in Laredo / Nuevo Laredo and Querétaro, MX. Insights are drawn from multiple sources, including our in-house transportation experts and industry data. https://www.dat.com/https://www.freightwaves.com/ Transactional and Committed Markets As we continue to move into the fall of 2022, the…
As we head into the back half of the year, there are many global, political, and economic challenges that have the possibility to impact demand and capacity. Sunset’s Strategic Account Management team weighs in on July 2022 freight market conditions.
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) Operation Safe Driver Week began on Sunday and runs from July 10-July 16, 2022. Operation Safe Driver Week is a seven-day safe-driving campaign aimed at reducing unsafe driver behaviors through educational and traffic enforcement strategies and interactions with law enforcement. The Operation Safe Driver program: Targets unsafe driving behaviors…
IBEW (Electrical Union for Canadian National Railway) imposed a strike as of 11:00AM on 06/18 after failed negotiations. Rail operations are expected to continue with the CN’s operational contingency plan. Rejection rates fell below 8% for the first time in two (2) years. Sunset’s Strategic Account Management team weighs in the June 2022 market conditions.
The following report was written by the Sunset Transportation cross-border team, stationed at the World Trade border in Laredo / Nuevo Laredo and Querétaro, MX. Insights are drawn from multiple sources, including our in-house transportation experts and industry data. https://www.dat.com/https://www.freightwaves.com/ Transactional and Committed Markets As we head into the summer of 2022, all three truckload…
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