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Revitalizing the Food Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

A recent article published by the World Economic Forum ran under a headline declaring the global food supply chain dead.[1] ” James Rogers ( @jamestrogers ), CEO of Apeel Sciences and author of the article, notes that Guterres’ speech marks “a crescendo moment for the food system and a warning for the world.

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Responses to Pandemic Ills That Slow the Recovery

MIT Supply Chain

While the US economy is still traumatized, it is time the government stopped treating it like a critical care patient in order to allow self-healing market forces to continue rehabilitating the patient. Similarly, the private sector needs to move out of the triage phase of its responses to the pandemic. by the beginning of May.

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What’s Next for a Bubbling Freight Market?

Zipline Logistics

But even as demand has outpaced the supply of drivers, many trucking payrolls have not increased to offset the imbalance we are currently seeing. US consumer spending has sharply rebounded from its lows in April. According to the US Department of Commerce , it jumped an additional 5.6

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How The Coronavirus Epidemic is Throttling Global Supply Chains

Logistics Bureau

Companies reliant on components procured in China, especially those in the automotive and electronics sectors, will really start feeling the effects of the crisis in March and beyond, analysts say. It adds that while all its manufacturing partner sites in that country have reopened, they are ramping up more slowly than expected.

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Truckload Volume Contracts from COVID-19 High

Zipline Logistics

Panic buying took hold of US consumers in late February and March, and as a result, retailers began increasing order counts with consumer product goods vendors throughout the country. . According to an article published in? Fed Manufacturing Indexes in March,? According to an article?

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Q3 2020 Freight Rates and Logistics Market Update

Zipline Logistics

However, the freight market, and the domestic economy, rebounded from April lows much quicker than anticipated over the last month. During the last few weeks, outbound tender volumes, a useful measurement of freight in the market, have soared. But that rebound could be short-lived as spots in the market have begun to run out of steam.

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