Collins Ikebude fleeing for his life from Boko Haram officially called Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna
Lidda'Awati Wal-Jihad (People Committed to the Prophet's Teachings for Propagation and Jihad), and is a militant Islamist movement based in northeast Nigeria. He came to the USA after his family was murdered.
In spite of bad odds, Collins went to Lagos & got himself involved as a dock worker. Working the shipyards for over 2 years with 14-hour shifts, he quickly advanced & was trained to handle the receiving, manifesting & warehousing of shipments destined to world destinations. Collins used his few free remaining hours left of his days to study, eat & sleep. After 2 more years of this staggering work schedule, Collins made it to his company import department developing close rapports with the customers handling their import shipments whether less than a container or full container loads and air freight shipments. Collins is the type of guy to stay overtime for the customers & although not paid for it, he would sometimes when permitted drive his beat-up Peugeot van to deliver cargo in the middle of the night for time sensitive shipments.
For Collins, it was not enough & so with the help of his boss that had the humanity to recognize his qualities, they started a legal process to send him to their USA counterpart, a freight company that is large enough to absorb a new foreign staff & create a position that would allow Collins to grow into. It was agreed that his cost here in the US would be split with the Nigerian company.
And now, with a work permit, in a foreign country working for small wages, Collins has the responsibilities to pay for himself, not letting down the people that invested in him. He was a bridge for Nigerian importers & US exporters to Nigeria. Collins’s demeanor took over his work
& developing a worldly appreciation for global markets that include him sparked a renaissance. Collins, beyond the ordinary, set goals & successfully unified his freight & trading networks being the missing link, closing the gap among shippers & consignees. Here people notice, better offers were made to capture a good element. The story does not stop there, you see Collins unlike many, greed does not grab him, and he is immune to it, anchored with tenets unshakable. The man stayed & grew air, ocean, import & export traffics that insured his stability; it got him recognition and lasting friendships. Collins & I are close; we are from the same world shipping, freight fabric, building long lasting work relationships through the years, edifying the human spirit in our shipping sphere. Collins died last year & I won’t be forgetting him & will persevere in keeping at work & outside his spirit. His last trip was in a cargo plane, I know he liked that...
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US retailers worry West Coast port delays will hurt post-Black Friday restocking
Retailers hope West Coast port congestion won't impact impact their holiday sales.
Major U.S. retailers don't expect U.S. West Coast port congestion to hamper getting Black Friday products on the shelves, but they’re far less confident on their ability to keep stores stocked through the entire holiday season.
Home Depot doesn’t expect supply chain trouble leading up to Black Friday, but the retailer is “concerned over the long-haul here the West Coast ports, the rail situation, the driver shortage, all look to create uncertainty in terms of transportation rates going forward.
“That's definitely a concern pretty hard to predict, given the fluidity of the situation that's out there,” Mark Holifield, executive vice of supply chain and product development, told investors Tuesday during a third-quarter earnings call, according to a SeekingAlpha.
High volumes of merchandise are still coming into ports and being transported inland, less than two weeks before the holiday shopping season begins. Ports on the U.S. West Coast are suffering from crippling congestion and have been since August. Many shippers have blunted the impact through their acceleration of imports via West Coast ports before a labor contract expired July 1, and by diverting goods through western Canadian and U.S. East Coast ports.
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