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This Week in Supply Chain Tech- January 19 2024

Supply Chain Matters

Founded in 2015, the Sayari platform integrates global corporate and supply chain data to surface risk insights for investigations, analytics, and supply chain risk management. Magazine as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America. governmental agencies to include U.S.

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

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How the Supply Chain Crisis is Impacting Businesses and Consumers. 66% of consumers are concerned that supply chain issues will never end ( Chain Store Age ). 82% of people have concerns that the supply chain will ruin life plans, such as birthdays, vacations, holidays, and the purchasing of necessary items.

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

Supply Chain Matters

But shipping industry sources now indicate that negotiations deteriorated last week over the scope of expected dockworker wage increases. freight and logistics sector in in a condition of contractionary recession , that adds to demands for higher worker compensation. The existing labor contract expired on July 1, 2022. Gulf or U.S.

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When Government and Business Global Supply Chain Forces Can Collide

Supply Chain Matters

Turning to the domestic side, among the various topics addressed were specific supply chain and manufacturing focused areas. The President acknowledged that the pandemic disrupted global supply chains and that there is an added sense of restoring added manufacturing and supply chain capability domestically.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

Carriers, freight forwarders, and shippers that were dealing with the China to North America trade lanes were already operating in crisis mode. They are predicting Ocean is going to increase 2-3x from $10,000 to container to over $30,000 per container and that Air freight spot rates and lead times are going to increase 3-4 times.