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JA Frate is proud to spotlight its president, Jill Jennings Dinsmore, who started in the business young and is fifty percent woman. She credits the highly visible supply chain industry and new education opportunities for her success.

Exciting news! JA Frate is heading to #ProMat2023!

According to analysts, the pandemic sped up the transition to e-commerce by four to six years.

A rail strike could happen as early as November 19, and likely by December 3. Experts say that this action could cripple the US economy and cost upwards of $2 billion dollars a day.

Logistics challenges have become more complicated, but they don't have to be. A tailored solution is within your grasp with JA Frate as your trusted logistics partner. Reach out to the JA umbrella of companies today and let us tailor local solutions to your complex logistics needs.

Typhoon Muifa is expected to hit Shanghai today. This comes just ten days after Super Typhoon Hinnamnor hammered the area. Analysts say that while they don't expect too much damage, Muifa, while a smaller storm, is slow-moving and will compound delays.

A provisional deal has been endorsed by 10 of the twelve rail unions. The impact of a strike might be felt by tens of thousands of workers.

The New York Times recently ran an editorial discussing the loneliness and regulations of life on the road. Drivers are key to ensuring goods reach retailers in time for holidays. The US started 2022 80,000 drivers short of what they needed. There are still 3.36 million truck drivers in the US alone.

Our divisions are working in tandem to offer complete supply chain services while being committed to the overall mission of providing great customer care. For our importers, we can source service providers for containers to be transloaded at port or to a JA Logistics warehouse and also source a trucker to linehaul that freight to the receiver.

Analysts expect it to get worse before it gets better. 260,000 TEU of containers were recently released from a locked-down Shanghai set to hit US ports soon. Port congestion and transloading issues only going to get more complicated. Let's get it done together at JA Frate and JA Logistics.

Transloading increases efficiency by creating a central point from where cargo can span out in different directions when delivering to retail or end destination.

With our warehouses, you can store your products in bulk so that you don’t have to worry about inventory being stuck in a port bottleneck when supplies run low.