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5 Keys to Building a Long Term Freight Partnership!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Featuring Our Top 16 Articles on Freight and Logistics! In shipping and logistics, building strong relationships with your freight or carrier company is often underestimated. Moreover, finding a reputable freight company that ticks all the boxes of what you’re looking for can often be a considerable challenge.

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Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Every industry sector and every business across the board, in APAC and around the globe have been impacted by the Great Supply Chain Disruption over the last two years, causing a blow out of transportation costs and continuous delays at every stage of the channel. Even in Australia, consumer sentiment index decreased to 102.2,

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

I was on the phone with Australia, China, Indonesia – really everywhere – trying to negotiate directly with suppliers. So, suppliers were asked if they used carriers or their own trucks to haul freight. Do you have a contingency plan for transportation emergencies? But there was a cost to this.

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7 Top Supply Chain Trends to Know for 2023

ModusLink Corporation

Carrier rates are declining across the board, and Seatrade Maritime News reported an “expected trough of freight rates to mid-2023 from 2024 with a lower demand forecast and a higher than expected effective capacity increase due to the unwinding of congestion. KPMG Australia. Carriers Will Lower Rates But Keep Many Others. <[link].

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The Supply Chain Response to India’s Second Wave of Covid!

Supply Chain Game Changer

However,lack of coordination between state ,centre and healthcare sector topped with transportation issues resulted in this struggle to cope up with the sudden spike in demand for liquid oxygen. Australia too sent immediate support package of ventilators, oxygen tanks and PPE Kits. High capacity oxygen tankers were airlifted from UAE.

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This Week in Supply Chain Tech- January 19 2024

Supply Chain Matters

Treasury Department along with governmental agencies in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and the European Union. location, facilitating delivery of lithium inputs and shipment of battery-grade lithium products over multiple transportation routes. governmental agencies to include U.S. Customs and Border Control, the U.S.

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“Too Big to Fail”: 10 Things you Need to Know About El Niño

Elementum

Raw materials will be cheaper to export from Australia. El Niño tends to cause drier winters in Australia, and a lower chance of cyclones. There’s a 75% chance of fewer cyclones in Australia this winter , meaning that mining in the region will get easier. Food prices will likely skyrocket. Rice shortages in the U.S.