This weekend the New York Times published a story about the ongoing criminal trial over the 2008 crane collapse in NYC that killed two people.   In brief, the crane owner, New York Crane and Equipment Corporation, needed a critical part manufactured to repair the crane and the owner found quotes from US-based companies to be too expensive; he […]

The word from the Panjiva research team: trade activity experienced declined significantly, but as expected, from January to February.  Specifically, the number of waterborne shipments coming into the U.S. experienced a 20% month-over-month decline from January to February.  In years past, we’ve seen Chinese New Year-related declines from January to February (-15% in 2011, -4% […]

Looks like some “cheers!” are in order!  According to the Panjiva research team, stout shipments are up once again this year, possibly hinting at a particularly festive March 17th. January and February shipments of the brew are at a record 609 – an increase of over 23% over last year’s 494 shipments and a whopping […]