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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-Up

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Seasonal Holiday Hiring At Its Lowest Levels Following up on our Supply Chain Matters posting highlighting the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) November 2023 holiday spending forecast , The Wall Street Journal reported this week ( Paid subscription ) that the number of U.S. Delivery of these innovative vans began in July 2022.

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Container ships to soon ‘sea’ low-carbon investments

Resilinc

2050 is a long way off, but the IMO also commits to incremental reductions as early as 2030. In the early years of decarbonization, Maersk anticipates charging a logistics premium for customers that want their products to cross the oceans with less GHG emissions than typical shipping. “We

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Supply Chain Matters COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict News Capsule Update- October 25 2022

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Trillion by 2030. . The Wall Street Journal Logistics Report indicated late last week that: “ the backup of container ships off the Southern California coast that was at the heart of the U.S. It is becoming clearer that supply chain procurement and logistics teams elected to route import shipments thru either U.S.

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COP28 Climate Agreement-Progress-Compromise-Reassessment

Supply Chain Matters

According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal ( Paid subscription ): “ In the run-up to this year’s conference, the U.S., Further advocated was a goal that global renewable energy capacity should triple by 2030, along with the doubling of the rate of global-wide energy efficiency improvements.

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Why Taxing Automation is a Bad Idea

Talking Logistics

Earlier this year, the billionaire founder of Microsoft Bill Gates said in an interview with online news journal Quartz that governments should tax companies use of robots to “temporarily slow the spread of automation and to fund other types of employment.” But California is not the first to raise this idea.

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Report Indicates Apple India iPhone Output is Now $7 Billion

Supply Chain Matters

In addition to a published report by The Wall Street Journal , we cited a published report from Bloomberg’s market intelligence analyst Tim Culpan. That was previously brought forward in August of 2022 with the announcement that the new iPhone14 would be produced in both China and India.

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Tesla’s Disappointing Q3-2023 Financial Performance- The Bloom is Off the Rose

Supply Chain Matters

Both Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal indicated in their reporting that such comments marked a distinct change in tone for Musk, who indicated last year that Tesla was a company that was “ recession resilient.” There was a stated warning from Musk that existing high interest rates could curtail industry demand for EV vehicles.