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Explaining the Bottleneck: The Champagne Shortage of 2021

o9 Solutions

The 2021 Christmas and New Year holiday season is facing a global supply shortage of Champagne. Hard and unseasonable frosts and increases in mildew devastated the vineyards of France, resulting in 80% of the county’s vineyards being damaged. Here it is important to update the production picture with the information on supply.

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CSR Initiatives in the Global Supply Chain

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Early in the pandemic, the company organized an airlift of two flights per week to deliver several hundred million masks from China to France. In maritime shipping, CEVA offers our customers alternative fuel options including biofuel, LNG and biomethane for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions connected to their ocean cargo shipment.

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The move to rail: a look at China-Europe supply chains

Resilinc

But it was featured on CNN Business and in other business media because it had traveled 6,000 miles from Xian China and represented a growing trend in China-Europe supply chains: shifting a portion of container traffic away from pricey and congested ocean shipping lanes to rail. It’s growing dramatically however.

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From soba to udon—Are the noodles in the FTA bowl getting too thick? – LogiSYM December/January 2021

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

By some accounts, the conception of the first FTA dates back to 1860, when tariffs between France and England were removed (wine, brandy and silk in one direction, and coal and iron in the other!) Although somewhat simplistic, that is not necessarily a bad way to think about FTAs, at least for companies that ship goods across borders.

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The Impending Ocean Carrier War on Last Mile Fulfillment

Freightos

The ”end” they refer to – whether it’s forwarding, fulfillment, or platforms for B2B or B2C sales – remains fairly ambiguous, spanning an acquisition of fashion logistics company HUUB in September 2021 to an investment in rapid fashion production company Unmade. Accelerating the shift. Enter Big Tech. of the U.S. of the U.S.

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Logistics Report: Forecasting More Shipping Delays; Cargo Swamps Airports; Alibaba’s Shifting Compet ition

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Forecasting Shipping Delays; Cargo Swamps Airports; Alibaba’s Challenge. PHOTO: KARIM SAHIB/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES. The halt at a key regional trading point is the latest hit to expedited shipping operations that have been buffeted during the pandemic. ?. Trouble viewing this email? View in web browser ›. E-Commerce.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

The recently released National Retail Security Survey shows that total shrink in 2021 reported by retailers is now almost a $100 billion problem. Walmart said at the end of 2021, it is 57 percent toward its 2030 goal and while that’s great progress, much of the low-hanging fruit has already been picked.