Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 30, 2021
I seethed as the news stations celebrated supply chain success for the December holidays. The health of the supply chain underpins our economy. When the supply chain is sick, all industries suffer. The supply chain can handle cost increases more easily than variability. I am worried.
Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 19, 2018
The World Trade Organization’s latest release of its World Trade Outlook Indicator shows merchandise trade volume experiencing above-average growth in early 2018. Even a wider Panama Canal can’t accommodate the largest ships on the water, some with capacity exceeding 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs).
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Talking Logistics
OCTOBER 13, 2017
I’m on borrowed time this morning, so let’s go straight to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: DAT Freight Index Hits All-Time High in September. Deutsche Post DHL to deploy self-driving delivery trucks by 2018 (TechCrunch). One Network Delivers New ONE Chain™ Solution.
Talking Logistics
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
Panama Canal Expansion. The Panama Canal expansion, slated for completion this spring, will impact logistics in a big way. ports will compete for customers, especially in 2018 and 2019 when the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) contracts will be renegotiated.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 30, 2021
I seethed as the news stations celebrated supply chain success for the December holidays. The health of the supply chain underpins our economy. When the supply chain is sick, all industries suffer. The supply chain can handle cost increases more easily than variability. I am worried.
TMC
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
The Wall Street Journal reported that a new joint entity could start operating from April 2018. Consider, for example, the Panama Canal puzzle. Current East and West Coast dockworker contracts expire in 2018-19, and although no one knows whether there will be slowdowns at that time, shippers need to be looking at such a possibility.
Logistics Viewpoints
AUGUST 18, 2023
The high stock levels are the result of retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers stockpiling everything from beer to DIY tools, chemicals and clothes as COVID-19 lockdowns snarled supply chains and shut factories. Now, global demand is falling as borrowing costs have risen, so companies have started running down stocks.
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