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

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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. bankruptcy code.

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SCRC Meeting – Patrick Fox from VF Corporation: “Creating a Global Trade Playbook”

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Do we have a crystal ball, and a system to produce a dashboard of every unit crossing a border where we pay a duty, and how much we are paying different countries like Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam or any of the hundreds of different countries we do business in today with suppliers or distributors? This is all very real.

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