Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights the increasing realities of declining global trade and freight rates that are occurring in the first-half of 2023. Background Global wide transportation and logistics costs increased at unprecedented rates during 2021 and 2022. All rights reserved.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 27, 2014

In other news… Supply Chain Risk Management Now a Priority for Most Businesses ( Accenture ). Several reports have been published in recent years underscoring the growing importance of supply chain risk management. Another example of the wrinkles in our lives , and how we respond to them.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

Supply Chain Risk Management Provider Avetta Acquired Stockholm based private equity firm EQT has reportedly agreed to acquire supply chain risk management software technology and managed services provider Avetta from existing private equity owners Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe ( WCAS ).

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 15, 2014

There was the infamous 11-day shutdown in 2002 , and just two years ago, 800 clerical workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach went on strike , shutting down the ports for eight days and costing the region’s economy about $8 billion. imports and cost the region about $1 billion per day is not good.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

Truck and rail transportation movements across the Mexico and U.S. Targeted supply chain transformational efforts will further need to be extended to address added business process needs. Global trade was reportedly set to contract by 5 percent in 2023 compared to 2002, amounting to upwards of $30.7

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Elementum

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Each interview is a conversation about the most important topics and tasks facing supply chain professionals all over the world. Dr. Yossi Sheffi is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he serves as Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL).

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The prosecution was brought by [the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority] under the air navigation (dangerous goods) regulations 2002. It outlines how dangerous goods must be handled when transported by air. So, how could a leading shipper like Amazon fail to comply with dangerous goods regulations?

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