The Container Price Surge: Port congestion and container prices aren’t just weighing on the people trying to ship goods — it also means a lot of potential headaches for the people caught in the middle. Gretchen Blough, Customs Brokerage Manager at Logistics Plus, makes another appearance on Marketplace, Hosted by Kai Ryssdal, to talk customs and trade operations.
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Logistics Plus has partnered with WPSE Money Radio, once again, to bring the 2021 Cleveland Browns and the 2021 Penn State Nittany Lions football games live to Northwestern Pennsylvania. Listen all season long on AM 1450/FM 107.1 beginning with Brown’s first preseason game tomorrow at 6:30 pm for the pregame (game starts at 7:00 pm)! Catch the Nittany Lion’s first game on Saturday, September 4 at 11:30 for the pregrame (game starts at noon). Full schedules are shown below. Also below are audio clips of the various Logistics Plus ads that will appear throughout the broadcasts. Be sure to tune in to catch all the action!
Best sure to check out the presentation of the Logistics Plus-sponsored High School Hockey Player of the Year to Brody Lamb by Martin St. Louis at the 58:19 mark, and the 30-second Logistics Plus commercial at the 1:27:24 mark.
As the global economy comes back online, traffic jams are happening at all levels of the supply chains. And that, in turn, has made things pretty chaotic for customs brokers. Gretchen Blough, Customs Brokerage Manager at Logistics Plus, makes another appearance on Marketplace, Hosted by Kai Ryssdal, to describe what she’s been dealing with in the shipping business.
Marketplace® is a nonprofit news organization on a mission to raise the economic intelligence of the country. For more than 30 years, they have helped people become smarter about the economic forces that touch their daily lives through the unorthodox story, the casual conversation, and the unexpected angle on the news.
After being blocked for nearly a week, traffic has finally resumed in the Suez Canal. Logistics Plus Founder and CEO Jim Berlin connected with Erie News Now reporter Haley Potter to discuss the blockage’s supply chain impact. Even though the canal blockage happened over 5,000 miles away in Egypt, the effects are still felt in the United States.
“Even though the ships will get through more quickly to get rid of the backlog, when you think about it, they are all going to ports, and now the ports will be clogged,” Jim told Erie News Now. He added, “We will feel this for a few months, I think.”
Since its completion in 1869, the Suez Canal has become one of the world’s most important seaways. This human-made waterway enables a more direct route for shipping between Europe and Asia. According to Reuters, about 15% of the world’s shipping traffic transits the canal, and an estimated $10 billion worth of goods was disrupted each day the canal was blocked.
The Container Price Surge: Port congestion and container prices aren’t just weighing on the people trying to ship goods — it also means a lot of potential headaches for the people caught in the middle. Gretchen Blough, Customs Brokerage Manager at Logistics Plus, makes another appearance on Marketplace, Hosted by Kai Ryssdal, to talk customs and trade operations.
After being blocked for nearly a week, traffic has finally resumed in the Suez Canal. Logistics Plus Founder and CEO 
