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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon on path to reach 100% renewable energy by 2025. Hasbro plans to further hike prices of toys, warns of $100 million Russia hit. Supply chain cyberattacks jumped 51% in 2021. The Covid pandemic continues to slow down global economies and supply chains.

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Chinese Lockdowns and the Future of Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

The Financial Times reporters observe, “[Supply chain woes] are likely to intensify if China digs its heels in and continues to pursue a zero-Covid policy that has left millions of workers across the country confined to their homes. Supply chain concerns, however, don’t focus solely on the movement of consumer goods.

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SAP’s Report of Q2 and 2022 Half-Year Financial Performance- Some Cautionary Signs

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights enterprise systems and supply chain software technology provider SAP SE ’s most recent report of Q2-2022 and half-year financial performance, along with added perspectives for this tech provider’s supply chain management focused customer community.

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EV Startups: Growing with the Shift to ACES

QAD

The proposal landed as a bomb for many but it was not the first message from the policymakers; UK had already last year proposed an ICE ban by 2030, Norway by 2025 and several cities across Europe (Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona) have plans for phasing out diesel and petrol within the next few years. All this while fighting against time.

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Is Fusion the Future of Energy? Part Two

Enterra Insights

But turning the science into a commercial technology still faces scientific, technical and financial hurdles.”[1] ”[4] Nevertheless, they add, “Technological advances — and the need for a flexible zero-carbon power grid — have made fusion worth considering.” ”[2]. .”[4]

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Petrochemical demand is up and prices are spiking

Resilinc

This period of high prices and margins coincided with—and was partly supported by—supply chain disruptions, including the February 2021 deep freeze on the Texas Gulf Coast and port and shipping congestion in much of the world. German trade group VCI reports that petrochemicals prices rose by 21.6%

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Why Energy Supply Chains are Transitioning to Renewables

Requis

The new technologies that are making renewables more viable. The rise in remote work has led to a drop in demand, not to mention the small matter of a price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia. The coronavirus pandemic has given the world a wake-up call about resiliency in supply chain.