Freightos

JANUARY 10, 2024

More Resources Home January 10, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. China – N. Europe – N.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

More Resources Home February 22, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Europe prices (FBX11 Weekly) fell 2% to $4,587/FEU.

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Freightos

JANUARY 3, 2024

More Resources Home January 3, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Europe prices (FBX11) increased 151% to $4,042/FEU.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides readers with a further update on the ongoing Red Sea shipping disruption including added context and implications. Background Just before the Christmas holiday, Supply Chain Matters alerted our readers to rather troubling signs for another global-wide shipping disruption.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of the realities of higher number of vessels among global ocean container shipping lines meeting contracting shipping demand levels that are now leading to headcount and schedule reductions. Background Ocean container shipping and logistics are the lifeblood of global supply chain movements.

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Freightos

JANUARY 3, 2024

More Resources Home Red Sea and Suez Canal Shipping Crisis Update Judah Levine Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Even with an international naval force in place, Houthi attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea continue.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Shipping Lines Warn Red Sea Security Continues to Deteriorate Bloomberg reported last week that the CEO’s of two major shipping lines, which being Maersk and Norden, have both of the view that the security threat level of shipping traversing the Red Sea to and from the Suez Canal has continued to escalate. percent to 4.5

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

freight and logistics industry continues to mitigate recessionary conditions including the April 2023 Logistics Manager Index reaching its lowest level lowest level in six years and one-half years. freight, logistics and parcel movement industry. The firm’s Maersk Line container shipping business unit reported net profit of $2.3

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Rivian Automotive is now free to sell its EV parcel vans to other parcel carriers, and added reinforcement from multiple ocean container shipping carriers that the existing industry volume declines could extend for two to three years. production worker hourly wages starting in January 2024.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 19, 2023

More Resources Home December 19, 2023 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Europe weekly prices increased 30% to $4.78/kg.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Dealing with the Shipping Container Crisis. Thanks to container prices rising as much as 600%, money that could be used for advertising went to freight companies instead. Following a March 2022 surge of Covid-19 in Shanghai, shipping company A.P. Accenture ).

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Supply Chain Matters alerts clients and readers to a potential replay of the 2021 disruption in global shipping and cascading supply chain disruption as a result of recent events. Teams have vivid memories of the grounding accident of the mega container ship Ever Given as this ship was attempting to transit the Suez Canal toward Europe.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Wall Street Journal reported this week (Paid subscription or metered view) that ocean container freight rates related to the most active global shipping lanes continue to decline amid what is traditionally considered the peak shipping period leading up to the holiday fulfillment season in the November-December period.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

More Resources Home November 28, 2023 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. America weekly prices increased 20% to $6.28/kg

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

Four Kites and BuyCo Partner to Provide Ocean Freight Management Supply chain end-to-end visibility Cloud platform provider Four Kites and BuyCo , an ocean container shipping platform have announced a strategic partnership to provide Fortune 500 shippers with broader visibility and control throughout the entire container shipping process.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 21, 2023

parcel shippers with the threat of a labor strike for parcel carrier UPS and for LTL carrier Yellow Freight. Consider that the cost to ship a ten pound package between 600 to 900 mile distance via UPS Ground has risen to $13.79, a 58 percent increase in five years. Next week is turning out to be a rather challenging week for U.S.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This, along with container shortages, drove up ocean freight spot rates and caused sporadic export delays. Over 100 ships waited to unload containers in December at Los Angeles and Long Beach, the U.S. How is Inflation affecting freight rates? As the first anniversary of the pandemic approached, U.S. gateways for Asian imports.

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ModusLink Corporation

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Carrier rates are declining across the board, and Seatrade Maritime News reported an “expected trough of freight rates to mid-2023 from 2024 with a lower demand forecast and a higher than expected effective capacity increase due to the unwinding of congestion. Container shipping to hit bottom in mid-2023, forecasts HSBC.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 26, 2023

We expressed that viewpoint not only because of our sense of the implications for both parties, but because of our belief that there are significant broader implications at play for the parcel shipping and transportation segment in the months to come. This effort is bound to increase labor tensions.

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Unleashed

JUNE 23, 2021

for the 2020-2024 period), but to also help businesses move on from the pandemic. Faster shipping: By operating multiple warehouses, you can keep your stock closer to customers than were you to operate just a central warehouse. This means faster shipping times, and lower transport costs. billion by 2024 (up from $14.9

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