Operations and Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 25, 2021

An ‘aggressive’ fight over containers is causing shipping costs to rocket by 300%. Shipping costs have skyrocketed as desperate companies wait weeks for containers and pay premium rates to get them, according to industry watchers. Compared with last March’s low prices, freight rates from China to the U.S. KEY POINTS.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 16, 2023

Risk Management in Global Ocean Context Feature Article by LSCMS Shippers Council Rates have gone down massively in most trade lanes; congestion has eased, and capacity seems sufficient in most sectors. We can observe this quite clearly in the growth experienced in countries like Vietnam, India as well as Hungary and Mexico.

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DELMIA Quintiq

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

There was just not enough products being shipped back and forth. The facility will add to existing transshipment capacity. Undoubtedly, the new infrastructure, financed almost entirely by China, will benefit the government of Serbia and Hungary. Even ancient caravans could not operate fully one way and empty the other.

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