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The Year the Ports Stole Christmas? Hopefully Not.

Logistics Viewpoints

The West Coast only has so much port capacity, and the East Coast and Gulf are separated by the Panama Canal – another potential point of congestion. It is difficult to determine throughput capacity by just looking at the throughput timeline. It is difficult to determine throughput capacity by just looking at the throughput timeline.

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LTL Industry Trends and Tips for 2022

GlobalTranz

Tightened Capacity. Labor shortages will have a lasting effect, effectively reducing capacity for carriers and terminals. Shippers with reasonable pickup and delivery requirements and freight that facilitates efficient space utilization will likely be able to secure capacity compared to those who don’t accommodate carriers’ priorities.

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Driving domestic production of critical materials and rare earth elements

Resilinc

In 2002, after the only major U.S. MP is investing refining capacity at its California mine and a Fort Worth, TX, facility that will supply “U.S.-sourced For mining and extraction, the United States has a lot of capabilities, although major investments are needed to increase our capacity.”.

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Why the West Coast Ports Labor Dispute Matters to Retailers

The Network Effect

Shippers still bear the scars from the disastrous 2002 work stoppage and have countermeasures in-place to avoid major disruption. We do not expect the ongoing labor negotiations at the West Coast ports to cause a substantial interruption on a wide-spread basis. While it is true that retailers still rely heavily on the U.S.

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Realties of Declining Global Trade and Transport Rates More Evident

Supply Chain Matters

The Drewy World Container Index , which stood at $9,304 per 40-foot container at the beginning of 2022, was reported as $2,120 by the end of 2002. The advisory reportedly noted that the industry would not be able to weather reduced shipping demand levels by existing capacity constraint methods.

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What is New in MMOG/LE Version 6?

QAD

The MMOG/LE is a required document for automotive supply chain best practices approaching 57,000 site assessments globally (and growing) for Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers since its first publication in 2002. As a part of analyzing capacity, scenario planning needs to be anticipated independently from customer requirements.

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Post-pandemic Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

Tan points out, when the SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, epidemic broke out in 2002 and 2003, “China contributed 4% to the world’s GDP. Step 4 : Determine how to ramp up capacity by focusing on sales and operational planning. Step 5 : Book logistics capacity as soon as possible.