Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 13, 2015

Last year around this time I made a lot of predictions about what 2014 would hold in store…Let’s revisit some of these, and see what has happened (or what hasn’t!) Here are my predictions from 2014, and an update on what I think will happen in these areas.

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MARCH 7, 2016

Freight tons moving on the nation’s transportation network will grow 40 percent in the next three decades while the value of the freight will almost double, increasing by 92 percent, according to the latest projections by the U.S. trillion in 2015). trillion in 2015). That is the “hundreds of billions of dollars” question.

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Supply Chain Movement

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

With Oracle on 31 October 2014. With EveryAngle on 19 November 2014. Some companies try to work round the blockades, such as the tomato producers who export to Russia via Turkey. 12 Questions about Multimodal Transportation Management. Loser of last quarter: Philips. Our supply-chain future: fair sharing – column.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Shell’s current shift to the global supply chain is impacting North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Russia, and China. Over this period of 2013-2014 Shell made good progress on inventory, but faced unprecedented supply price volatility. A Brief History of IT Investments.

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Supply Chain Movement

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Transportation against the clock. In Sorcerer (1977), drivers are tasked with transporting creates of explosive nitroglycerin through the South American jungle in two old trucks. Transport can be dangerous. From Memphis, America, to Nikolia in Russia in eighty seven hours. Eighty seven hours is a shameful outrage.

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MARCH 21, 2019

For comparison, this makes the country about half the size of Russia or South America, and more than twice the size of the European Union. Cargo transportation in the U.S. not including its overseas territories, has about 9.8 million sq. km of area, 9.1 million sq. km of which is land. Annual freight traffic equaled about 37.22

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The 9 th annual BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) summit is being held in Xiamen September 3-5, 2017 (the summit location rotates between its member countries). In 2014, a port strike at Los Angeles-Long Beach caused severe congestion and freight delays. BRICS summit. Union labor contracts.

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Supply Chain Movement

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Venue: IEC Crocus Expo, Moscow, Russia. The TransRussia exhibition is a major marketplace for transport services, each year attracting leading professionals from Russia, the CIS and Baltics. Events cargo Crocus expo Exhibition moscow Russia transportation Transrussia' Date: 21-24 April 2015. URL: [link].

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 4, 2016

Russia is continually testing the international waters of potential warfare, and terrorist activity has frightened the entire country lately. These recall counts point to sizeable growth over the past decade in the recall notices of Chinese-made consumer goods from 58 in 2002 to 153 in 2014.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 25, 2019

The folks at whychristmas.com explain, “To people in western Europe and the USA, one of the most famous things about Christmas in Russia is the story of Babushka. The website explains, “Most people in Russia have NEVER heard of the story as it was probably created by an American poet and writer called Edith Matilda Thomas in 1907!”

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JULY 8, 2020

The genesis for this scenario lay in a confluence of events, including the coronavirus lockdown, which had drastically reduced demand, and the conflict over production levels between Saudi Arabia and Russia, which led to both countries flooding the market with low-cost oil. Transportation is still heavily dependant on fossil fuels.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2016

The answer depends largely on whether OPEC, Russia, and other oil producers adhere to the supply cuts they pledged to on December 10th. If they actually follow through on their promise and oil prices continue to rise next year, how will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in response?

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 11, 2014

Today it operates in 67 countries with 143,000 employees and has 76 business units on six platforms that cover animal feed, food production, energy and transportation, financial services and pharmaceuticals. It’s hard to imagine that Cargill began as a grain storage warehouse in Iowa, USA, in 1865.

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Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Global Maritime Routes and Chokepoints Maritime routes are a few kilometers wide corridors that connect economic regions and cross land transportation gaps. Major routes also involve the transport of raw commodities, including petroleum, grains, minerals, and food items. They form a continuum. meters in 2008 as opposed to 22.5

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

And you can’t forget about the other Unpredictables: Iran, Russia, China, and ISIS; all of these entities could have a destabilizing effect on world peace and prosperity. In short, relations between the United States and North Korea have significantly degraded this past year and it doesn’t look like things are going to improve anytime soon.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 11, 2017

The 9 th annual BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) summit is being held in Xiamen September 3-5, 2017 (the summit location rotates between its member countries). In 2014, a port strike at Los Angeles-Long Beach caused severe congestion and freight delays. BRICS summit. Union labor contracts.

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Global Trade Management

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Thursday, 20 February 2014. Sochi, Russia (Reuters) - The House of Switzerland chalet has become one of the main attractions in Sochis Olympic Park, offering takeaway food, a sit-down restaurant, and parties well into the night. "We ▼ 2014. (13). Subscribe To. We put in another order but the delivery didnt really work.”

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Freightera

MARCH 29, 2021

Zhenya co-founded Freightera in 2014 with her husband Eric Beckwitt, and over time the company became the first low emission freight marketplace for businesses big and small: manufacturers, retailers, and distributors, shipping all across Canada, the USA, and cross-border from the US to Canada, and vice versa.

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Global Trade Management

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

. * Beijing-Hamburg freight service completes maiden journey by Staff Writers Hamburg, Germany (AFP) Jan 24, 2008 A goods train from Beijing arrived in Hamburg on Thursday after having crossed six countries in a journey organisers said could ring in a new era of rail transport between Asia and Europe. ► 2014. (13). Blog Archive.

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