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Operations and Supply Chain Management
OCTOBER 18, 2021
Forecasting Shipping Delays; Cargo Swamps Airports; Alibaba’s Challenge. The supply-chain problems are helping drive stronger inflation, the WSJ’s Gwynn Guilford and Anthony DeBarros report , as rising transport and other logistics costs flow through to the cost of consumer goods. Transportation. Cargo Facts).
Intelligent Audit
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
logistics industry, the freight railroads and three of the nation’s largest transportation labor unions managed to reach a tentative agreement the the early hours of Thursday, September 15th. Cost of Flour, Consumer Goods, Remains High. Air Cargo Volumes Normalizing YoY, but Concerns Remain. With the agreement, the U.S.
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crisp
JULY 12, 2023
Crisp’s resident supply chain expert Barry Bradley shares an update on the state of the consumer goods supply chain, offering insight on how companies can stay ahead of the trends and gain a competitive advantage. As more goods are manufactured domestically, there is a greater demand for domestic transportation services.
ThroughPut
MARCH 22, 2022
Existing vessels are now being utilized to their fullest capacity and deployed on newer optimized routes. In 2021, with 10% of container capacity grounded, waiting times for vessels skyrocketed. Port congestions are the cornerstone of this global crisis and can worsen capacity constraints across global marine lines.
Zipline Logistics
MARCH 30, 2021
For now, we anticipate that constrained capacity will remain through Q3 and perhaps the remainder of the fiscal year. In short, we expect it to be difficult to source capacity in the coming months until contract rates edge toward spot rates and the market finds a new “normal.”
Zipline Logistics
JANUARY 4, 2022
For the second consecutive four-quarter period, the freight market faced continual capacity challenges as the global supply chain wrestled with the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. The past year’s consumer spending continued to build on the momentum established during the first year of the pandemic. billion on Black Friday.
Operations and Supply Chain Management
JANUARY 25, 2021
Ikea’s Singapore operations called it a “global transport crisis” and estimates 850 of its 8,500 products are affected by shipment delays. A Chinese worker looks on as a cargo ship is loaded at a port in Qingdao, eastern China’s Shandong province. The shortage is further exacerbated by limited air freight capacity.
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