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COVID-19: Bullwhip in Cheese Demand

Operations and Supply Chain Management

The smaller supply chain and freight division posted a 22% profit increase due to strong shipping demand out of Asia. Transportation. The International Air Transport Association says global air cargo capacity was off by nearly a third from year-ago levels in August, including a 67% decline in belly space. Advertisement.

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Hanjin, Hurricanes, Harvests May Boost Truckload Rates

DAT Solutions

I’d advise shippers to not get complacent about transportation costs for the longer term, however. No doubt this will complicate efforts to get products from Asia to U.S. Crops are also strong in nearby Wisconsin and Minnesota, despite flooding in the Red River Valley. Here's what we're seeing: Lessons from Hanjin.

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Combined Distribution Network (CDN)

The Logistics of Logistics

In one area – vessel supply and support- CDN use has resulted in almost 70 percent reduction in transportation costs. This data will allow stakeholders to clearly understand the current transportation or warehousing structure as well as to establish an accurate cost baseline by which all optimization would be evaluated.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

With Moscow’s war raging in Ukraine, exporters and logistics firms transporting auto parts, cars, laptops, and smartphones are now looking to avoid land routes passing through Russia or the combat zone. Historically, most of the largest Russian diamonds go to Asia.”. It’s because there’s another outlet for those goods.

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

6 River Systems

The company has operations in more than 40 countries and specializes in integrating different modes of transport in logistics solutions. XPO Logistics XPO Logistics is a transportation and contract logistics management company with more than 1,530 locations in more than 30 countries around the world. Nippon Express owns more than 31.7

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Supply Chain Matters Editorial Commentary- Notions of Rethinking Global Supply Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Matters

At the time, multiple reports indicated that the consumer electronics giant requested contract manufacturers to evaluate the cost implications for shifting 15 to as much as 30 percent of production capacity from China to other Southeast Asia regions. and Chinese based high tech electronics providers. Similar to the U.S.,

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Goodbye globalization: redesigning global supply chains to prioritize security over cost

Resilinc

We need to harness that ‘buy American’ energy into a free-world, ‘buy allied’ framework,” said Mike Gallagher, Republican Congressman from Wisconsin and co-chair of the House Armed Services Committee’s Defense Supply Chains Task Force in a Wilson Center webinar last year. economy relies on. “We