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High Seas Troubles Affect Global Supply Chains, Part One: Security Risks

Enterra Insights

Near the Horn of Africa or the Strait of Malacca, pirates who had once seemed quelled have roared back, crimping sea traffic. patrol the Horn of Africa. ” Unfortunately, these security concerns are not the only challenges international shipping is facing. After the Cold War, Russia teamed up with the U.S.

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Global Manufacturing PMI Levels Rise in January 2024

Supply Chain Matters

The S&P Global Vietnam Manufacturing PMI® reentered expansionary level at a reported value of 50.3 This index is a compilation of seven ASEAN nations- Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar , the Philippines , Singapore , Thailand , and Vietnam. from the 48.9 level reported for December. in January from 49.7 reported for December.

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2024 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Prediction Two

Supply Chain Matters

The beneficiaries have been India and Vietnam from an Asia perspective and Mexico from a near-shoring perspective. Because of the re-routing of containers ships having to traverse the Cape of Good Hope and Africa to reach either Europe or Asia destinations, container spot rates were soaring. Added Evidence Data According to U.S.

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July Transportation Market Overview 2021

Freight Plus

We’ve seen the Ever Given run ashore in the Suez Canal causing significant disruption in the ocean space (that vessel just arrived in Rotterdam 4 months after the original ETA), a Covid outbreak in Yantian, a new outbreak in Vietnam, a typhoon knock Shanghai/Ningbo offline for a weekend, devasting floods in Europe, civil unrest in South Africa which (..)

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

Goods move through 25 ports of entry into North America and 10 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In Asia, Vietnam and Bangladesh are more important sourcing locations. Those goods flowed through three regional hubs – in Singapore, Panama City, Panama and Stabio, Switzerland – to 49 distribution centers, 24 of which VF operates.

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Red Sea Ocean Transport Shipping Disruption Update

Supply Chain Matters

Latest Developments As a result of the continued attacks, major container shipping lines continue in re-routing ships around South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope to reach European and added destinations. Tobias Meyer, CEO of DHL Group indicated that the rerouting of ships around Africa is leading to imbalances in container capacity.

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Global Wide Manufacturing Output Strengthens in March 2024

Supply Chain Matters

along with Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. One of the more important observations from the March S&P Global report was the following: “ Inflows of new work strengthened from both domestic and export markets, the latter reportedly reflecting better sales to Africa, Asia, Europe and the U.S.” U.S. reflecting a 1.3