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Trends in Sustainability: Deglobalization will accelerate in 2024

Freightera

Deglobalization will accelerate, and reshoring and localization of manufacturing will continue 2023 has seen a severe freight recession, especially in North America, with significant overcapacity and declining rates for ocean shipping as well.

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Hanjin Bankruptcy Demonstrates Fragility of Ocean Freight Market Prior to “Black November”

NC State SCRC

The recent bankruptcy announcement of Hanjin, a major shipping line, on the Friday before the last Labor Day long weekend, was a shock to everyone working in the global logistics shipping industry. Some of the ships have even been seized by creditors! ordered Hanjin to keep vessels in the U.S.

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Made in America: What it Means to the Country

GlobalTranz

Just the shipping by boat contributes five percent of world pollution. We’ve received radioactive steel, toxic dog food and poisonous flooring products. Among the BRIC nations, manufacturing executives expressed optimism for only China and India by 2020. The US has fair labor laws and child protection laws - China does not.

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The Emerging Supply Chain Wars

NC State SCRC

Moreover, he predicts that local prototyping and mass production could bring about a severe long-term contraction in global shipping, inventories, and warehouses. And eventually countries who are lower on the food chain will expand and ascend up the value chain to take over those industries now populated by Western countries.

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Global Luxury Management “Lifestyle” brands require push supply chain design customization

Supply Chain View from the Field

More and more global luxury brands such as Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and others are promoting themselves as Lifestyle brands, spanning many products including fragrance, home collections, apparel, paint, wallpaper, foods, and many other products. The entire apparel supply chain is driven by these financial metrics.