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This Week in Logistics News (October 21 – 27)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has embarked on an ambitious Net Zero Roadmap, outlining a comprehensive strategy to slash greenhouse gas emissions at the New York/New Jersey seaport. As a result, retailers now have more bargaining power over suppliers.

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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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This Week in Logistics News (September 10 – 16)

Logistics Viewpoints

However, the most surprising new addition, at least to me is supply chain (the chain of processes, businesses, etc. by which a commodity is produced and distributed: the companies, materials, and systems involved in manufacturing and delivering goods). And now on to this week’s logistics news. Railroad strike averted.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 27 – June 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. manufacturers re-evaluating their reliance on China. manufacturers re-evaluating their reliance on China. Executives are plotting alternate supply chains or devising products that can be made elsewhere should China’s hundreds of thousands of factories become inaccessible.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Over the years, Amazon’s strategy to tackle counterfeit goods focused on providing data to law enforcement and taking aggressive enforcement actions against counterfeit sellers. Some major ocean carriers have also announced new fees for goods shipped on the route as of June 1 in response to the canal restrictions.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

So three months after an executive meeting on June 23rd , an updated strategy was released, tracking a radical shift into a slimmer Maersk, focused on providing end-to-end logistics services. The Post-2016 Strategy: End-to-end Shipping. The September 2016 decision mapped out a clear new direction. The Primary Maersk Plays.

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2022: A Look in the Rearview Mirror–Part I

American Global Logistics

We had a hangover from the pandemic: Which led to continued inventory shortages, closures of manufacturing plants in China, congested ports, and underemployment. Cargo planes could not fly out of or into Russia or Ukraine. This was evident with the creation of a new report from the New York Federal Reserve.

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