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Continued Disruption and Added Cost Inflation Reflected in Key Global Transportation and Logistics Indices in March and Q1 2022

Supply Chain Matters

In a prior published commentary, we provided highlights of March and Q1-2022 global production indices along with their implications. We now add highlights of March and Q1-2022 key global transportation and logistics indices. The Flexport Ocean Timeliness Indicator tracks average ocean container shipping transit times.

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Relatively Cautious Global Production and Supply Chain Indices for February 2022

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights February global manufacturing and supply chain indices and challenges relative to product demand and supply network imbalance levels in the first quarter of 2022. Global Wide Production Activity. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P.

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Market Update: Transportation Industry News

CH Robinson Transportfolio

This month’s Market Update highlights key factors that impact the transportation industry in North America and will keep you up to speed on the latest news and topics that matter to your supply chain and business. They detract from GDP but add to domestic freight tonnage, so this is positive for the transportation sector.

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U.S. West Coast Dockworkers Enacting Multi-Day Job Actions

Supply Chain Matters

The most significant news in global transportation and logistics circles late last week and this week are U.S. But shipping industry sources now indicate that negotiations deteriorated last week over the scope of expected dockworker wage increases. The existing labor contract expired on July 1, 2022.

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Do Americans Really Want Splendid Isolation?

Enterra Insights

Even as political battlelines in the United States harden, the push for “Made in America” products is being made from both the right and left. In some cases, support for “Made in America” is more show than actual support. Today there are 135 million service workers versus 13 million manufacturing workers.”[2]

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Revenue data is sourced from the companies’ websites and market research platforms such as Macrotrends. It started in 1969 as DHL Air Cargo, and by the late 1970s, the company had expanded its operations and offered services throughout the world. They have operations in North America and Europe. Revenue: $14.2