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Shipping Container Shortage–Another Bullwhip Example

Operations and Supply Chain Management

A Chinese worker looks on as a cargo ship is loaded at a port in Qingdao, eastern China’s Shandong province. In December, spot freight rates were 264% higher for the Asia to North Europe route, compared with a year ago, according to Mirko Woitzik, risk intelligence solutions manager at supply chain risk firm Resilience360.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Port truck drivers on West Coast protest costs, working conditions ( Cargo Business News ). In 3PL news, XPO Logistics announced that it has acquired Optima Service Solutions, LLC, “a leading non-asset provider of last-mile logistics services for major retailers and manufacturers in the United States” for $26.6 UPS Sets 2014 Rates.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- May 12 2023

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog features our May 12, 2023 edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a synopsis capsule of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news. in Lithium Supply Tie-Up U.S. to Combine with Allkem Ltd. to Combine with Allkem Ltd. based Livent Corp.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

Oil prices tanked, cancellations increased and Maersk drilling and supply chain services would run up nearly $2 billion dollars in annual losses. But shipping remains an open market and regardless of technology or how far in the supply chain Maersk stretches, it still has 4.1 Today, 75 to 80% of cargo arrives on time.