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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

81% of semiconductor contract manufacturing was based in Taiwan or South Korea in 2020 ( Deloitte Global ), but The United States passed a $52 billion dollar Chips for America Act in an effort to bring the manufacturing of microchips back to the United States. IATA data shows global demand for air cargo markets jumped 3.7%

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

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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Collaborative Logistics’ Role in the Emergence of the Physical Internet

Material Handling & Logistics

Imagine moving cargo across continents as smoothly as computers process data. Data-centric freight exchanges and intelligent multimodal cross-docking hubs will allow haulers to move cargo effortlessly by road, rail, sea and air and seamlessly change carrier, or even transport mode, in real time.

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Automation is here and transforming logistics

Resilinc

Marine terminal automation is “the most contentious issue facing longshore unions on the West and East coasts of North America,” wrote JOC. According to The Maritime Executive , Shanghai port authorities expect automated operations to handle 30 million TEU by 2026. The automated terminal handled about 5 million of Shanghai’s 43.5