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Navigating Today’s Logistics Landscape with Argents Express – Insights from Tony Chiappetta
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October 29, 2024
Argents Featured in Voice of the Independent Voice of the Independent recently featured Argents Express in an article titled “Riding the Waves of Change in Modern Logistics.” The piece explores how the logistics industry is adapting to rapid change. Furthermore, it includes direct insights from Argents co-owner Tony Chiappetta. In the article, Chiappetta speaks to ...

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Impasse at the Crossing: Railroad Strike
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September 13, 2022
A strike on the railroad has become possible as the thirty-day cooling-off ends Friday, and there are still two unions holding out for quality-of-life benefits, including vacation time, sick time, and the attendance policy. Due to the possibility of a work stoppage, many Class 1 railroads are initiating embargoes and service alterations to slowly wind ...
Charleston: Status of the Port
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September 12, 2022
East Coast ports are seeing record numbers of container volume, mostly from shippers looking to avoid the congestion snarls on the West Coast. However, at some East Coast ports we’re seeing the same issues as these ports don’t have the infrastructure to handle the increased activity.  Others, like the Port of Charleston, have been watching ...
SCPA: Strategies & Foresight Prior to Peak
Domestic News
June 30, 2022
The South Carolina Port Authority (SCPA) is making moves to get ahead of the game. They’ve announced several key strategies they’ll be implementing to mitigate peak season disruptions and avoid the debilitating congestion the ports suffered in the early part of the year.  The SCPA reports: “SC Ports has moved roughly 2.7 million TEUs thus ...
A Recession, the Supply Chain, & The Bullwhip Effect
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June 27, 2022
In the past, when making policy, Federal Reserve officials didn’t give too much consideration to supply chain challenges. The consensus was that supply chain issues would manage themselves and the Fed would manage the economy, independent of those issues. However, that strategy could soon be changing.  With a possible impending recession (though, the ATL Fed ...
Airfreight Angst
Domestic News
March 22, 2022
While we don’t often open our news with a joke, because it’s not funny and we understand that, this week, we want to inject a little levity. When the pandemic started, there was some internal buzz by industry experts regarding the delays and costs impacting the ocean freight industry. We remarked that a group of ...
Intermodal supply chain off the tracks?
Domestic News
September 27, 2021
Try transloading instead. Earlier this year, the Union Pacific Railroad elected to impose an embargo on ocean containers for a week from Southern California to Chicago to regain fluidity and clear out their overcrowded ramp. Chicago’s Intermodal rail congestion has been a much written-about topic throughout the year. That embargo only further backed up ocean ...
Cargo Congestion. What Gives?
Domestic News
August 13, 2021
Cargo Congestion brings Continual Crunch Ocean cargo congestion & disruption reached critical levels in 2020 and then got worse. Where we once had a plethora of containers waiting for transportation off ships anchored in San Pedro Bay, we’re now looking at a dumpster fire of delays and fees. It would be a comedy of errors ...
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