Shipping Container Shortage–Another Bullwhip Example
Operations and Supply Chain Management
JANUARY 25, 2021
The pandemic and uneven global economic recovery has led to this problem cropping up in Asia, although other parts of the world have also been hit. For the route from Asia to the West Coast of the U.S., to Asia are “going back empty.”. As a result, containers are stuck in the West when they are really needed in Asia.
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