Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 11, 2023

South Korea recently announced plans to foster the globe’s largest concentration of semiconductor supply network capabilities over the coming two decades. The planned facility is expected to have a monthly production capacity of 40,000 300mm (12-inch) wafers and create upwards of 2,000 direct high-tech professional jobs.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Bloomberg’s reporting references an actual statement from TSMC indicating: “ In light of the strong customer demands we are seeing in TSMC’s advanced technology, we will consider adding more capacity in Arizona with a second fab based on operating efficiency and cost economic considerations. ”. In June, U.S. has to do so as well.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The orders-to-inventory ratio fell to another multi-year low last month as excess capacity continued to build at factories. South Korea. We continue to make mention of the S&P Global South Korea Manufacturing PMI® which continues to reflect a theme of a quickened downturn in the country’s manufacturing sector.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Chairman of South Korea based SK Group , a strategic battery supplier to Ford Motor , indicated to Bloomberg that amid the increased tensions between the U.S. and China, batteries for electric vehicles will remain higher for a longer period.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MARCH 14, 2020

As a result, available capacity on the Trans-Pacific will continue to be volatile due to the removed capacity in the market. Similar to China, airlines have canceled majority of passenger flights in and out of Europe and South Korea due to safety concerns and lack of travel demand. specifically China.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

China, Japan, and South Korea are among the top consumers , driven by their increasing demand for lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles and other high-tech applications. To meet this demand and ensure a sustainable supply chain, Australia, Chile , China, and Brazil are proactively ramping up their lithium production.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 3, 2023

Further indicated were signs of weakness occurring in China , Japan , Malaysia, South Korea , Taiwan and Vietnam. Report authors noted that sector data of new orders indicated that contraction occurred across consumer, intermediate and investment goods industries.

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20Cube Logistics

JANUARY 27, 2022

The expansion of capacity by the leading suppliers and manufacturers will keep the inflation rate stable and the supply crunch that occurred in 2020 is going to give way to excessive inventory and supply. . Asian tourists and Chinese tourists, in particular, are major contributors to the global economy.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Capacity crisis, rate boom likely in the coming year, experts say (CCJ). According to a Reuters report: As of Wednesday, of Hanjin’s 97 container ships, 36 were waiting outside of overseas ports, according to South Korea’s finance ministry. -bound ship is being held ‘hostage’ (Reuters).

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 8, 2020

A study found a high demand for more takeaway food and home food deliveries, particularly in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Thailand. 20% of fire capacity at one time). In China, where the outbreak started, 86% of consumers said they would eat at home more often than before the outbreak. Eating interests are NOT changing (i.e.,

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 2, 2020

China says almost all of its major industrial companies have resumed production and that its ports are again running at near-full capacity after a two-month Coronavirus-linked shutdown. When it comes to air freight, global capacity is down 22 percent compared to last year, with further declines expected. Air Freight. Ocean Freight.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 19, 2020

Almost 75 percent of US companies are experiencing capacity shortfalls in their supply chains, due to Coronavirus-linked transport disruptions , a new study has shown. Examples are: Samsung Electronics , which is shifting part of its domestic phone production to Vietnam due to the rapid advance of COVID-19 in South Korea.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 2, 2018

Shrinking capacity may mean companies have to hire or invest more to avoid overheating, yet it could also force them to push up prices, propelling inflation enough to squeeze the expansion. Accelerating growth has been eating up excess capacity and once that is gone inflation will perform in a more typical fashion and accelerate.”--Mike

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 2, 2022

Company executives cited good progress in addressing the previously acknowledged overbuild of customer fulfillment and warehousing capacity while overall number of employees was reduced by 6 percent. billion while the online retail segment incurred its third consecutive operating profit loss, albeit somewhat lower than previous quarters.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Since Hanjin Shipping Company of South Korea filed for bankruptcy protection last week, the WSJ reports that dozens of ships carrying more than half a million cargo containers have been denied access to ports around the world, as there are doubts as to who will pay the docking fees, container-storage, and unloading bills.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2020

Some Chinese factories still have warehouses filled with goods that they produced and failed to ship in early January, before the Lunar New Year holiday that transformed into a nationwide shut-down of about a month, due to a lack of trucking capacity. COVID-19 Impact on Procurement. in vehicle sales worldwide in 2020 due to Coronavirus.

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EMERGE App

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Less affected are Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand. Only South Korea, Indonesia, and Myanmar may see a muted effect in switching away from Chinese exports. Also, supply capacity may limit the Chinese export replacement potential. They produce similar goods that China exports to the United States.

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Aera Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

These challenges include: Fluctuations in demand for a drug (which can result in excess inventory and increase cold storage capacity requirements and cost). Consider the recent bankruptcy of one of the world’s largest marine shipping companies – South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping Co.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For instance, the bankruptcy of South Korea’s 7th largest shipping company (Hanjin Shipping) led to a dramatic reduction in global supply chain shipping capacity. Capacity fell by 3 percent, and up to $14 billion in cargo was unable to dock. What to Do About It.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Dozens of SMR developers world-wide — ranging from 22-person startup Oklo to Bill Gates-founded TerraPower — are testing designs for the reactors, which have less than a third of the generating capacity of traditional nukes and have components that can be mass-produced in factories.” ” Small Modular Reactors. Footnotes. [1]

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EazyStock

AUGUST 8, 2023

Chinese New Year shutdowns Every year factories in China (and other countries that celebrate the Lunar New Year, such as Indonesia, Malaysia, North Korea, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, and Brunei) shut down so that their workers can celebrate Chinese New Year. In 2024, this will be from February 9-15.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC), the company that makes the majority of latest-generation chips for Apple products, has committed to increasing capacity by spending $100 billion across the next three years, and building new factories in Arizona and Japan. Wall Street Journal ). Deloitte Global). Wall Street Journal ). Bloomberg).

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EazyStock

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Every year factories in China (and other countries that celebrate the Lunar New Year such as Indonesia, Malaysia, North Korea, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, and Brunei) shutdown so that their workers can celebrate Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year shutdowns. Typical Challenges Businesses Face due to Chinese New Year.

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Vinculum

MAY 17, 2022

Asia Pacific: (China, India, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Others). The report mentions the key players of the industry are Product specification, Revenue, Price, Gross Margin, Company Profile, and Production capacity for the detailed analysis of the landscape along with the factors and challenges that a market undergoes.

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Logility

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The beginning of the year saw us dealing with supply shortages as product was caught up in containers, as suppliers dealt with capacity challenges. Some 28% of the current installed fleet capacity is on order; just under half of that is expected to be delivered over the course of next year. A surplus of ships is likely 3.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 9, 2020

The effects include: Severe disruption to shipping, with many Chinese ports operating at drastically reduced capacity and around 200 sailings cancelled. South Korea, $28.7 Unpredictable levels of domestic and international shipping capacity. A dip in demand for iron and coal, as factories in China fall idle. China, $ 71.3

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 10, 2023

The gauge brings together 27 variables that take the temperature of everything from cross-border transportation costs to country-level manufacturing data in the euro area, China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the U.K. and the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 21, 2024

As our industry supply chain readers are becoming increasingly aware, domestic semiconductor production presence is and remains a fundamental part of domestic policy among certain Asian nations such as Taiwan , South Korea or Japan. presence of an Intel , Samsung or TSMC supply volume and required capacity needs.

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Resilinc

JUNE 22, 2021

Four industries in particular were called out: semiconductors; high-capacity batteries; critical minerals and materials; and pharmaceuticals/APIs. Also worthy of imitation are the industrial policies of countries like Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore where national governments have subsidized semiconductor R&D and manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2023

Farley additionally indicated that this auto maker is “ pretty much done ” in locking mining and processing capacity needed to support upwards of 2 million EV vehicle production needs by 2026. powered EV’s.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 9, 2022

Yet, this legislation is not unique from a global perspective in that many other countries and regions including China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan the Eurozone , are already spending billions on such incentives. currently accounts for 13 percent, the rest of the world including Europe , 12 percent.

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Intelligent Audit

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

However, as Carere makes clear, this lag in volume gives FedEx the much-needed capacity to onboard new clients. to Incheon Airport in South Korea to connect the Southeastern U.S. Maersk Invests in U.S. Air Cargo Capabilities. In October, Maersk Air Cargo announced two weekly flights from Greenville, S.C.,

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Supply Chain Management and Analytics

MARCH 29, 2020

This pandemic clearly showed that the global digital infrastructure and global apps have been instrumental in instant communication, business continuity as well as reducing COVID-19 spread in such countries as South Korea and Singapore. 2) Real-time visibility is extremely valuable during times of crisis!

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ThroughPut

MARCH 30, 2020

South Korea has reported the lowest number of new cases in 4 weeks , leading the way on the containment execution roadmap. Our responsibility is to minimize the impact, manage our healthcare system’s capacity, and make sure the right supplies show up at the right place at the right time. There are already signs of recovery.

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Supply Chain Management and Analytics

MARCH 29, 2020

This pandemic clearly showed that the global digital infrastructure and global apps have been instrumental in instant communication, business continuity as well as reducing COVID-19 spread in such countries as South Korea and Singapore. 2) Real-time visibility is extremely valuable during times of crisis!

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Kinaxis

MAY 24, 2018

While observing that US and Israel are lagging several other countries such as Singapore and South Korea in standardized tests, he attributed the innovation of US and Israel to the high self-esteem of the students, fostering entrepreneurial spirit. Digital process prototypes.

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Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Chokepoints (or bottlenecks) are a term used to describe the most crucial strategic marine routes because they: Capacity limitations. Chokepoints commonly have shallow, constricting depths, which hinder navigation and place restrictions on ship capacity. However, the canal can accommodate 50 ships per day at its maximum capacity.

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