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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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Growth Boots on the ground, eyes on the prize
Facility/Employee Spotlight
October 18, 2021
“The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” ~ Robert Burns The aforementioned proverb is generally invoked to discuss a situation that goes off the rails despite good planning and intentions. We at Argents prefer to think of it as a way of explaining that all the planning, research, and intentions for success ...
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 ...
Low value woe-ohs: e-Commerce buyers and de minimis rules
eCommerce
September 10, 2021
It’s not our fault that the pandemic accelerated a shift to e-commerce by five years in less than a year and a half. But those buyers are increasingly having their orders fulfilled directly from foreign countries or from facilities set up just outside of America’s borders. The de minimis rules which raised the ceiling to ...
4th Quarter Incoming: the Escalation of eCommerce
eCommerce
August 24, 2021
After a year of fitful recovery from the pandemic in most areas, one industry has seen astronomical growth and expansion – eCommerce. Global eCommerce statistics in 2021 show a meteoric rise that advanced the industry by a decade, speeding up the infiltration of online shopping faster than ever before. As we face a difficult peak ...
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 ...
Proposed Postal Service changes to impact final mile performance
Regulatory Changes
April 05, 2021
The United States Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has testified before Congress several times in the past few months as he tries to make a case for his ten-year plan to reform the Postal Service. DeJoy, whose roots hail from the private sector and with a background in logistics, most recently at XPO in senior leadership, ...
Forced labor an increasing concern as CBP steps up Withhold Release Orders
International News
March 25, 2021
The Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act signed into law in 2015 brought increased enforcement tools for Customs and Border Protection across a range of issues. One that has increased in prominence since that time is what the agency can do to take steps against products being imported that were made with forced labor. CBP ...
Clearing the Suez Canal
International News
March 01, 2021
The Ever Given’s ill-fated six day stint blocking the Suez Canal came to an end on Monday. While the Canal Authority is confident that it is only a matter of days to clear the several hundred ships on either side, the knock-on effect to global supply chains one year into a pandemic is not. The ...
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