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This Week in Logistics News (November 4-8, 2013)

Talking Logistics

In North America, average truckload rate per mile charged to customers increased about two percent while truckload transportation costs increased about four percent, excluding the estimated impacts of the change in fuel. Robinson reported total net revenues of $463.3 million in the quarter, an increase of 7.1

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So Your Supply Chain is Banning Bangladesh….and Going to Cambodia?: “The Ugliest Race to the Bottom”

Supply Chain View from the Field

The same unsafe working conditions prevail, and you are just as likely to encounter the problems with capacity and subcontracting that we’ve noted in other blogs.

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Ship Smarter: How to Avoid Bottlenecks in Your Global Operations

ThroughPut

shipments for the sole reason that they’re coming from America. It could then be held until a more thorough inspection can be made, which can come with an additional expense. Complicating matters further, some countries will hold U.S. And in countries like Saudi Arabia, every container must go through inspection. Ali Hasan R.

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What is a Sourcing Agency and How does it work?

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China Flexes Its Global Logistics Muscle

Material Handling & Logistics

China-Pakistan. It is a very positive initiative and major vision of how China can collaborate with countries in its neighborhood, Europe, Latin America and Africa in a way that is in the long-term interest of China and the global economy.”. The plan consists of six economic corridors: • China-Mongolia-Russia. Eurasian Land Bridge.

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Trends 2024: Risk Management

Enterra Insights

Journalist Andrew Freedman explains, “Geopolitical risks in the Red Sea and extreme weather in Central America are converging, jostling global supply chains fed by the Suez and Panama Canals.”[5] .”[4] When two risk areas, like geopolitics and climate change, converge, you can bet disaster lurks nearby.

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Strikes and protests disrupt supply chains, globally

Resilinc

In Pakistan, the rupee has dropped to an all-time low, protesters are battling an IMF bailout that requires austerity measures, and the textile industry in Punjab closed for the first week of July due to high fuel prices. Protests in response to inflation and shortages of food and fuel are occurring on every continent.