Year in Review for the Shipping and Cargo Industry
2021 has been an unprecedented year for the shipping and cargo industry. The pandemic has put massive pressure on the global supply chain, leading to factory closures, labor shortages, and significant delays at key ports. After all, much of the global population has been sitting at home for over a year, saving up money that […]
A Record-Breaking Number of Ships Stuck off the California Coast
Congestion Reaches Pandemic High Since July 2021, the number of container ships idling off America’s ports has been rising. As of September 9th, a record-shattering 61 container ships were idling off the California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach alone, with 29 additional ships waiting near the East Coast ports of Savannah and New […]
How Container Ship Sizes Have Grown Over Time
Intermodal Shipping Containers The world today looks vastly different than it did several hundred years ago, and the same is true for intermodal shipping. Before steam engines, vessels had to rely on wind power for locomotion, and they were limited in terms of their size, carrying capacity, and speed. Freight was shipped across oceans in the holds […]
How the Intermodal Process Provides More Protection and Security
How Intermodal Shipping Offers Enhanced Security Intermodal shipping is growing in popularity, and with good reason. It offers several efficiencies above and beyond what traditional over-the-road (OTR) shipping offers. Let’s look at one of these benefits in particular: increased protection and security. Intermodal shipping, which involves two or more different shipping modes (such as trucks, […]
How Telematics Has Advanced the Safety of Chassis and Containers
CIE Manufacturing Telematics is the union of two branches of science: telecommunications and informatics. The former involves technologies such as phone lines and cables, the latter, computer systems. In general, the term telematics refers to various technologies that collect and transmit data in the management of commercial fleet vehicles and equipment. Telematics offers a high-level […]
Creating Strategies to Improve Chassis Positioning
CIE Manufacturing The Major Challenge for CIE Joe Hite, director of national accounts for container chassis builder CIE Manufacturing, said that one of the bigger challenges his company has dealt with in the past year is creating strategies to improve chassis positioning. Read More
The Environmental Advantages of Intermodal Shipping
CIE Manufacturing Intermodal transportation uses a combination of two or more carrier options to move around 25 million containers each year. With some clear benefits including cost-saving and time-efficiency, greater scalability, and reduced risk, the environmental advantages of intermodal are perhaps most interesting and surprising of all. While a multi-carrier approach to transporting freight might […]
Intermodal Growth in 2021 and How The Industry is Meeting Demand
CIE Manufacturing Shipping analysts project that intermodal shipping demand will grow strongly in 2021, particularly in the second half of the year. Several factors are driving intermodal growth. In this short article, we’ll examine the influence of: Todd Tranausky, vice president at FTR Transportation Intelligence, predicts a 5.4% growth in intermodal volume next year. Manufacturers […]
CIE Manufacturing’s Sales Team
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The Role of the Transportation Industry in Vaccine Distribution
CIE Manufacturing It is not an exaggeration to say that every time you look at the news, coronavirus vaccines are front and center. Where the reports used to be all about the development of vaccines, the focus has shifted to producing them and getting them to millions of people. Vaccine delivery is entirely reliant on […]