Logistics Viewpoints
JANUARY 30, 2023
Afterall, port congestion has cleared, transportation costs have gone down, we are seeing far fewer product shortages, and the looming recession will likely take some of the pressure off hiring and retention woes. By October 2010, Foxconn’s factories in Shenzhen alone had as many as 500,000 workers. This is disingenuous at best.
Talking Logistics
OCTOBER 27, 2016
Outside of the Paris Agreement, the European Union (EU) has a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transport by around 60 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. It currently has no limits on truck emissions, unlike other countries such as the United States, China, Japan and Canada, which already have truck fuel efficiency standards.
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Logility
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Production halts, container and transport shortages, and port logjams are just a few of the factors eating away at both efficiency and profits. Sanctions, blocked Ukrainian ports, and stalled transportation routes have also disrupted the China-to-Europe supply chain. What’s a supply chain manager to do?
GlobalTranz
JUNE 13, 2017
added 77,000 jobs in 2016, with an additional 13,000 reported for the previous six years, for a total of 338,000 manufacturing jobs reshored since 2010. Apple has traditionally been relying on a supply chain based in East Asia, using Korea to produce memory chips, Japan to produce displays and China to assemble products.
The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society
JULY 16, 2023
These changes can be caused by factors such as natural disasters, political unrest, trade disputes, or disruptions in transportation networks. For instance, during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Toyota’s robust supply chain resilience allowed it to quickly recover and restore operations.
6 River Systems
JULY 29, 2020
Nippon Express Nippon Express is a Japanese logistics company commonly known in Japan as ‘Nittsu.’ It was established in 1937 with the merger of Kokusai Tsu-un KK, six other competitors and many other small-scale logistics companies in Japan. million square feet of warehouse space in Japan and an additional 25.8
Enterra Insights
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
As a result, piracy activity dramatically decreased by 75 percent between 2010 and 2022. can still call on allies in Europe or Japan, whose navies once spanned the globe. What alternative means and routes of transportation can be used? billion to upwards of $8 billion a year.”[1] The world now faces new maritime threats.
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