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Air Freight Explained: Calculating Costs and Price Trends

Freightos

DHL Global Forwarding actually got started by taking ocean freight documents by air to expedite release along a new West Coast-Hawaii ocean line. Whatever the product is, if there’s high international demand for a product that requires bolstering down a supply chain, it will generally be shipped by air. In 2015, it moved 2.1

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Opening Up

BlueYonder

Yes, I went to Chicago, New York, Washington DC, Florida, California, Hawaii, and to Puerto Rico and Mexico. I graduated college in 2015 and returned to China. The post Opening Up appeared first on Supply Chain Nation. My favorite was Puerto Rico as it felt like vacation! Yes, it is! I like to make soap!

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Hollywood’s Top 10 Supply Chain Disaster Movies

Resilinc

Ready for a supply-chain-themed movie night? As professionals who monitor the supply chain daily for potential disruptions, we can’t help but see the supply chain everywhere—yes, even in disaster movies. Grab some popcorn and get ready for a supply chain-themed movie night!

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Good News for Holiday Coffee Lovers — More Investment in Responsible Coffee Supply Chains

SupplyShift

And since 97% of specialty coffee is grown by small shareholder farmers in limited-resource countries like Rwanda and Indonesia, it leaves the door open to unethical labor and environmental practices along the supply chain. created in partnership with Conservation International. The C.A.F.E. And What About Your Cup?

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Good News for Holiday Coffee Lovers — More Investment in Responsible Coffee Supply Chains

SupplyShift

And since 97% of specialty coffee is grown by small shareholder farmers in limited-resource countries like Rwanda and Indonesia, it leaves the door open to unethical labor and environmental practices along the supply chain. created in partnership with Conservation International. The C.A.F.E. And What About Your Cup?

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Spotlight on trade agreements: IPEF, TPP, RCEP

Resilinc

After years of negotiation, the TPP was signed by the President Obama in 2015—but never ratified (or rejected) by Congress. sphere of influence in ways older treaties didn’t, by addressing new arenas of competition such as supply-chain resilience, technology standards and export controls.”.

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Doing Business in the United States

QAD

The last two states added were Alaska and Hawaii in 1959. The climate is mostly temperate, but Alaska is arctic, Florida and Hawaii are tropical, and the Great Plains are mostly arid or semi-arid. Supply Chain Infrastructure for Manufacturing. billion mt-km in 2015. Manufacturing in the U.S. Agriculture makes up 0.9