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This Week in Logistics News (January 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

In the past weeks, ocean freight rates have risen as much as $10,000 per 40-foot container, as container ships seeking to avoid the attacks embarked on long detours around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, diverting more than $200 billion of cargo away from the critical trade artery. Global trade declined by 1.3

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July Transportation Market Overview 2021

Freight Plus

On the domestic side, both dry vans and reefers continue to run tight in terms of capacity with rates remaining elevated. Volumes remain high and with import volumes remaining elevated and domestic manufacturing continuing it’s bull run, there’s no foreseeable light at the end of the tunnel in 2021. Just incredible.

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What Does it Take to be a Successful Entrepreneur? The Incredible Journey of a Last Mile Pioneer

Logistics Viewpoints

Wumdrop is a successful last mile logistics company in South Africa. So, we outsourced the delivery capacity too incumbent courier companies. We figured the lesson of removing anxiety from a delivery was a scalable opportunity in South Africa. I interviewed Simon Hartley, the cofounder of Wumdrop.

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

ModusLink Corporation

Sustainable supply chain management: The original model of Supply Chain Management follows a linear production that hypothesizes the constant input of natural resources and an unlimited capacity to assimilate waste. Retrieved from Triple EFF. consulting. EM Ojo, C. GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. Corporate news.

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What Caused the Baby Formula Shortage + 7 Ways Consumers and Companies are Coping

ToolsGroup

Like the chicken shortage and other issues surrounding the supply chain crisis , infant formula shortages originated with COVID-19 disrupting the supply chain , triggering the lack of labor , transportation, and raw materials. This made it incredibly difficult for manufacturers to accurately gauge the market size for production.

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Digitizing the COVID Vaccine: India’s Got This Figured Out

NC State SCRC

To begin with, it helps that India is one of the largest manufacturers of vaccines in the world. India’s domestic vaccine program administers one of two shots: the AstraZeneca Plc vaccine, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India Ltd. , They are also supplying Brazil and South Africa commercially with vaccines.

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The Impact of the Red Sea Ship Attacks on Global Supply Chains and Logistics

Resilinc

Hapag-Lloyd: Shipping and container transportation company. Shipping and container transportation company. Will stop transporting cargo to and from Israel (Dec 17). Will either navigate its vessels around the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, or temporarily pause their journey and reposition them in a safe location.