The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

It allows for better tracking of cargo and people in airports, enhanced security, and enhanced safety – just to name a few. These applications translate ultimately to less down time, less distance travelled, less misrouted cargo, less idle time at the airport, and less flight time circling over the airports, waiting in line to land.

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Freightos

APRIL 9, 2024

Judah Levine April 9, 2024 Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) fell 9% to $3,294/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) fell 19% to $4,309/FEU. Asia-Mediterranean prices (FBX13 Weekly) fell 19% to $4,316/FEU. Ocean rates from Asia to N. Prices to N.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

In a prior published commentary, we provided highlights of March and Q1-2022 global production indices along with their implications. We now add highlights of March and Q1-2022 key global transportation and logistics indices. The average LMI index over the first quarter of 2022 was reported as 74.5, per 40-foot container.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

The team behind Energy Observer wants to gain better information for commercial cargo vessels by vastly increasing the size of the ship. LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – April 2022. The original gyro style wind energy installations were replaced with a wing type sail in 2019. This vessel can’t get in the ocean quick enough.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights February global manufacturing and supply chain indices and challenges relative to product demand and supply network imbalance levels in the first quarter of 2022. The February 2022 Manufacturing ISM© Report on Business reported a value of 58.6, Global Wide Production Activity.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

The project started in 2019 and by March of 2022, these electric fixed wing drones had delivered over 1 million vaccines in addition to other healthcare related deliveries. In addition to blood distribution, Zipline also operates drones In Ghana where they were able to get vaccines out, countrywide to fight COVID 19.

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Intelligent Audit

AUGUST 16, 2022

FedEx Updates Peak Surcharge and Fees For First Time in 2022. Despite optimistic changes in air travel in 2022, air cargo availability remains slim amidst continued disruptions, revealing the need for continued surcharges and fees that complicate freight billing. UPS Sees Positive Potential for Autonomous Air Cargo Transport.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 29, 2023

This meant a huge movement of goods from East Asia to Western Europe and America, creating an asymmetry in demand as well as freight rates. Similar behavior was seen across road transport and air cargo. In March 2022, the United States had a record-high 8.1 million vacant job openings.

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Freightos

JANUARY 3, 2024

Carriers are adding additional vessels to their rotations and are sailing faster to keep up with regular departure schedules in Asia, but the longer return trips will mean more time required to repatriate empty containers and could lead to shortages at Asian origin ports. The number of impacted Asia – N.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Forecasting Shipping Delays; Cargo Swamps Airports; Alibaba’s Challenge. A growing number of logistics operators and industry observers see the snarls bottling up supply chains this year extending deep into 2022. Emirates Airlines’ cargo operations at Dubai International Airport in February. Nikkei Asia). Cargo Facts).

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Judah Levine November 15, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 6% to $1,711/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) climbed 3% to $2,421/FEU.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

With global cargo lanes clogged, businesses are turning to new ways to deliver goods. Mississippi River cargo traffic near Luling, La. The former wartime airbase handled a record 1,655 international cargo arrivals in 2021, a 73% jump from 2019, and overall tonnage rose 18%. We had a good cargo business before the pandemic.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 14, 2023

The Shippers Council of the Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society comprises close to 30 of the largest shippers or beneficial cargo owners (BCOs) in the Asia Pacific. Freight procurement is the mainstay of any supply chain professional but price is not the be-all and end-all.

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Resilinc

APRIL 19, 2023

Resilinc data shows a 55% jump in alerts about bankruptcies from Q4 2022 to Q1 2023 and a 90% increase in corporate restructuring alerts. Factory disruptions saw a 17% boost QoQ; labor shortages, strikes, falling consumer demand, and energy crises in both Asia and Europe all played a role.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For example, carriers plan to reduce the capacity for the Asia-to-North America West Coast trade lanes by as much as 29% in the weeks following China’s Golden week in early October. Trains, the Magazine of Railroading, reports that the four major Class I railroads have hauled nearly 160,000 fewer trailers in 2022, down 20% year over year.”

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Logistics Bureau

JUNE 15, 2020

Capacity from Asia Pacific to Europe – down by 30%. Capacity from Asia Pacific to North America – down by 17%. Intra-Asia capacity is down by 35%. Using passenger airliners to provide cargo-only services. Indeed, it’s likely to be a turbulent year for air cargo carriers and freight-forwarding specialists everywhere.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

In addressing this quarterly shortfall, newly appointed FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam pointed to the following factors: A $500 million shortfall for the Express business unit as a result of unexpected volume weaknesses experienced from Asia and European shipment activity. That is not performed by spreadsheets or the back of a napkin alone.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In addition to Target, Amazon, Costco, Home Depot and Wal-Mart are among the large retailers that have chartered container ships to move goods from Asia to North America. Now, air shipping is increasingly in demand by retailers whose products would otherwise languish off the coast of Southern California or in congested Chinese ports.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 23, 2023

economy through the lens of the logistics and transportation sector in terms of costs and implications to the economy during the past year, in this case 2022. percent of nominal GDP , rising 20 percentage points in 2022 and the highest growth ever seen. logistics costs in 2022, rail transportation costs increased 17.6

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Wildfires, mudslides, and flooding delayed lumber shipments, leading to a shortage that saw the cash market price for lumber reach $1,111 per thousand board feet in 2022 – almost triple its bottom price in August. Cotton production in India could dip 4% from 2021, down to 34 million bales in the 2021/2022 marketing year. Nikkei Asia ).

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

According to the April report commentary , the industry remains hopeful in new signs indicating that retailers and manufacturers are getting closer to working off the overall glut of inventories that resulted in 2022. percent drop in cargo volumes. Further indicated was: “ whether or not we have hit bottom of rates is unclear.”

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2024

billion (net profit) Profit by Region/Country: North America is a major market, followed by Europe and Asia. Billion US Dollars), followed by Europe and potentially Asia. 2021: 1,608,000 Amazon Employees New hires: However, in 2022, they employed over 1.5

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Originally native to Asia, the BMSB was accidentally imported to North America in the late 1990s, and to some European countries after 2000. In Australia, the Department of Agriculture, Water, and the Environment (the Department) has published new seasonal measures for the BMSB risk season, running from September 1, 2021, to April 30, 2022.

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Zipline Logistics

MARCH 30, 2021

Trucking services will likely continue to be a very much-needed commodity throughout the year, with a potential softening in Q1 of 2022. . Many cite the flood of products from Asia , labor difficulties due to COVID-19, and a shortage of warehousing space. Bottlenecks at Ports to Add More Volume to the Freight Market.

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Freight Plus

JANUARY 18, 2022

Ocean carriers estimate that the current backlog would take over 5 months to clear out, and that’s only if no more freight was booked in Asia. With sustained US consumer goods demand in 2022, and no significant vessel capacity scheduled to enter Transpacific, supply/demand dynamics of 2021 are projected to continue well into the new year.

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Stord

APRIL 26, 2022

After 2+ years of out-of-stock messages, low inventory levels, and sky-high costs, brands are exploring a wide range of strategies to resolve these issues and strengthen their inventory throughput in 2022 and beyond. Sellers, like Home Depot and Walmart , are chartering their own cargo ships to ensure freight capacity for their products.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Americold employs 17,000 people worldwide and operates more than 24 temperature-controlled warehouses across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America. billion “Chips for America” semiconductor manufacturing and research subsidy program approved by Congress in August 2022 to ramp up U.S.

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Resilinc

MARCH 5, 2024

Drought in China Impact on Supply Chain The Yangtze River Basin, home to Asia’s longest river, boasts a staggering annual cargo volume of over 3 billion tonnes. In August 2022, these water levels fell to 60% below average , marketing the lowest levels seen since 1865.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 25, 2022

Given that some Asian and South American countries have no compunction about continuing to do business with Russia, and that many companies in the West have trade relationships in Asia and South America, the sanctions have caught many Western companies’ supply chains in a stranglehold. But the problems don’t stop there.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In this 2022 guide to freeports: What is a freeport? In November 2020, fifteen countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership did just that, creating the world’s largest free trade area that expands from Kazakhstan’s southern borders into Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2022

Cargo losses escalate as thieves target cars, electronics. The Port of Oakland reported cargo in April dropped 7 percent compared to the same period a year ago due to factory and port shutdowns in China. Volume from Asia has slowed, as have the number of vessels coming to the port, according to the release. s CargoNet.

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Freight Plus

APRIL 20, 2021

East Asia to West Coast Performance. These premiums, congestion issues, elevated cargo rolls, and overall delays are not going anywhere anytime soon. BCO’s are negotiating contracts for 2021-2022. Plan on significant increases in your Asia-US East Coast base port pricing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 12, 2023

Chile has long been a hub of second-hand and unsold clothing, made in China or Bangladesh and passing through Europe, Asia or the United States before arriving in Chile, where it is resold around Latin America. One big step UPS took toward that goal was its acquisition of Bomi Group in November 2022. UPS will add 2.3

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2022

Today, July 22, 2022, is George Jetson’s birthday. FedEx Express introduces new routes between Asia and Europe. The two designs, one that looks more like a small plane used by hobbyists and another with a big belly used for additional cargo space, were recently unveiled in a company blog post. The future is here. Alphabet Inc.’s

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JANUARY 21, 2022

Co-op, Tesco, Asda, Aldi, and Morrisons are participating in a government “regulatory sandbox” between January and May 2022, testing the technology’s ability to facilitate alcohol sales safely and swiftly. Five major UK supermarkets are set to trial age estimation technology to accurately guess customers’ ages when purchasing alcohol.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

2022 ocean schedule reliability dropped to 30%. Looking at the share of total weekly sailings being blanked on the Asia-North America West Coast trade, blank sailings clearly improved during 2023 and dropped below 10% in June with a slight uptick in early July., Obtaining ocean visibility can be challenging.

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 3, 2022

Remember that all major carriers implemented peak surcharges at the onset of the pandemic, and while the official holiday peak season is over, there is a significant risk for 2022. Such an event brought all freight originating from India and Asia headed for Eastern U.S. What’s Next for Disruption in 2022? ports to a standstill.

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