The Oct. 19 AS Daily news report, “Crowley gets green light for sea-air transshipment in Miami,” suggested that the Miami forwarder was the first to offer such a service to the United States.
However, American Shipper has learned that some forwarders employed the intermodal mode in Seattle during the 1990s until the early 2000s, with cargo arriving from Japan by vessel and being trucked to Sea-Tac airport, where all-cargo airlines such as Cargolux carried the goods to Europe.
Correction: Crowley gets green light for sea-air transshipment in Miami
