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This Week in Logistics News (April 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

Unseasonably cold weather in Spain slowed down the growing of peppers, leading to Morrisons limiting purchases to two per customer. British supermarkets source peppers exclusively from Spain during the winter months. There are more than 450,000 such warehouses nationwide, with nearly 16.4 million U.S.

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August 2022 Global Manufacturing Indices- Declining Momentum Accelerating

Supply Chain Matters

Barring the initial pandemic lockdown months, this is the steepest downturn in US manufacturing seen since the global financial crisis in 2009.”. Of continued concern, manufacturing powerhouses of Germany, Spain and Italy each remain at contraction level PMI values. the same value as that of July.

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Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Continue to Stabilize in March and Q1-2023

Supply Chain Matters

A specific statement that caught our attention indicated: “ Supply chains continued to recover from the immense pressure experienced through much of the past three-and-one-half years, as average vendor lead times shortened to the greatest extent since May 2009.” China’s expansion was noted as marginal by the end of Q1.

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Top 13 Asian eCommerce Marketplaces

Vinculum

With 300 million registered users across four countries (China, Russia, Spain, and Indonesia) the company is the world leader in high tech and artificial intelligence delivery systems. Rebranded from Gmarket to Qoo10 after eBay’s takeover in 2009, the website sees a daily traffic of 600,000. Accounting for 32.6