Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 10, 2025

Research from Creditsafe’s Cost of Late Payments report found nearly 86% of businesses saying that up to 30% of their monthly invoiced sales are overdue. In an era where margins are already razor-thin and uncertainty is the new norm, the ripple effects of delayed payments can be just as devastating as a dockworker strike or a port closure.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 20, 2025

We have taken this proactive measure to safeguard our people, assets, and customers’ cargo in light of increased regional instability." Earlier, Israel announced it had conducted overnight strikes on missile factories and a research center linked to Iran’s nuclear program. Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2025

States Photo: iStock.com/ ronnachaipark July 10, 2025 SupplyChainBrain With no end in sight to the truck driver shortage, many freight firms plan to raise wages and make efforts to improve drivers’ work-life balance, according to a 2025 Logistics Report from Tech.co, a research, analysis and news provider.

Survey

Freightos

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In air cargo, rates ex-China remained elevated but level last week even in whats meant to be one of the busiest weeks of the year, as capacity additions, frontloading and advanced capacity reservations combined to avert peak season chaos. Freight news travels faster than cargo Get industry-leading insights in your inbox.

Asia

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 10, 2025

A report by accounting consultancy GMT Research puts BYD’s true net debt at closer to 323 billion yuan, compared with the 27.7 The platform had issued 400 billion yuan ($55.7 billion) worth of notes as of May 2023, the last time that BYD disclosed such information.

Price Reduction

Freightos

JULY 1, 2025

In air cargo, the US suspension of de minimis eligibility for Chinese goods drove a reported 43% drop in China-US low value shipment volumes in May. Some frontloading out of South East Asia ahead of the July US tariff deadline may explain SEA-US air cargo rates climbing 11% to $5.17/kg kg since early May.

Negotiating Skills

Freightos

JUNE 24, 2025

The ceasefire is also restoring air cargo capacity to the Gulf region after some airspace closures on Monday. In air cargo, Freightos Air Index rate data show that prices are easing slightly but are stable overall for the major lanes. Flight cancellations in the Middle East may have contributed to Middle East – N.

Israel

EFT

JULY 22, 2025

plans to spend $50 billion to expand manufacturing and research capabilities in the U.S. Biogen beefs up North Carolina manufacturing ahead of potential drug tariff storm Biogen (BIIB.O) will invest $2 billion more in its existing manufacturing plants in North Carolina, the drugmaker said on Monday, as it seeks to expand in the U.S.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 18, 2025

The following Supply Chain Matters multi-part guest commentary is authored by Michael Lamoureux who provides over 18 years of experience and observations and experience in procurement sourcing technology applications. Copyright 2025, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters blog. All rights reserved.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 7, 2025

flagged fleet, expand the capacity of key container ports on both coasts, develop state-of-the art warehousing across the country and establish a significant air cargo hub in Chicago. Copyright 2025, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters blog. There is specific mention of an expanded fleet of 30 U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software

Freightos

JULY 22, 2025

Home Transpac post-peak ocean cools, and no signs of air cargo bump ahead of August tariff expirations – July 22, 2025 Update The Freightos Weekly Update keeps you informed on international freight with key economic data, demand trends, and rate insights. China-US prices have dipped 7% to $5.17/kg,

Cargo

Freightos

JULY 8, 2025

Home Transpacific ocean rates continue to slide; Air cargo out of the Middle East still recovering – July 08, 2025 Update The Freightos Weekly Update keeps you informed on international freight with key economic data, demand trends, and rate insights.

Cargo

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 6, 2025

Usual event calendars showed nothing, until analysts conducted deeper research and found regional flooding likely caused product shortages. It’s these unstructured signals that are often the first indicators of trouble, and it’s an area that supply chain leaders are actively addressing with applied AI.

Modeling

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

See More Bad News on US Cargo Theft.) Click here to send us your comments In response, the National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA) has just released a framework it says can help shippers, carriers and brokers fight back against the growing and increasingly sophisticated threat of digitally enabled cargo theft.

Cargo

Freightos

MAY 7, 2025

This move implies a significant shift away from air cargo for China-US e-commerce and to ocean freight and domestic fulfillment in an effort to avoid tariffs as long as possible, reduce costs from air cargo, or shift the tariff burden to domestic sellers. Name This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Negotiating Skills

Freightos

JULY 29, 2025

Air cargo volumes out of Japan or the EU to the US could see some bump from the lower tariffs on auto parts. Procure : Streamlined procurement and cost savings with digital rate management and automated workflows. Rate, Book, & Manage : Real-time rate comparison, instant booking, and easy tracking at every shipment stage.

Freight

Freightos

JUNE 17, 2025

air cargo, China – US rates were level last week at $5.29/kg. Procure : Streamlined procurement and cost savings with digital rate management and automated workflows. Prices of $4,846/FEU from Asia to the Mediterranean last week were up almost 50% compared to the end of May.

Israel

Freightos

JUNE 17, 2025

air cargo, China – US rates were level last week at $5.29/kg. Procure : Streamlined procurement and cost savings with digital rate management and automated workflows. Prices of $4,846/FEU from Asia to the Mediterranean last week were up almost 50% compared to the end of May.

Israel

Freightos

AUGUST 5, 2025

Air cargo markets, like ocean, show little sign of any last minute push to load goods before the August 7th tariff deadline. The de minimis exemption has been one key to the surge of B2C e-commerce goods entering the US mostly via air cargo for the past two years. Europe levels for the first time since November.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 29, 2025

Tariffs on medicines are a blunt instrument that will disrupt supply chains, impact on investment in research and development, and ultimately harm patient access to medicines on both sides of the Atlantic,” said the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries (EFPIA) in a July 28 statement. businesses.

Pharmaceutical

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 11, 2025

Through this loan, we are taking decisive action to restore our domestic critical minerals supply chain, revive our industrial base, and rebuild our military," said Emil Michael, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. between 2020 and 2023. Rare Earth Miner MP Materials Biden Pledges $35 Million to Boost U.S.

Material Savings

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Studying economics at Yale, Smith’s 1965 term paper pitched the idea of creating a logistics company that would carry only cargo, and do so for a package’s end-to-end journet, such that a package could be delivered almost anywhere in the US overnight. Click here to send us your comments The story is well known. Why not write about that?

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Matters

MAY 19, 2025

FedEx’s contract as the primary air cargo provider for the USPS expired in September 2024, and was not renewed. UPS replaced FedEx as the primary air cargo provider at that time. Bob Ferrari Copyright 2025, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters blog. All rights reserved.

Waste Reduction

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

There is one easy answer: a large number of cargo ships continues to avoid sailing in the Red Sea in and out of the Suez Canal, to avoid attacks from so-called Houthi rebels in South Yemen. By far the best model I have come across to achieve this is the Vested Outsourcing model developed by researchers from the University of Tennessee.

South Africa

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 28, 2025

While it may initially sound like positive news, restricting the group to a few potentially strategic buyers means limited competition in the price discovery process for the asset, according to Ke Yan, head of research at DZT Research in Singapore. Hence, the deal may not fetch the best price that the company hopes for,” he said.

China

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 7, 2025

increased to 88,787 in the last year compared to 67,678 in the previous 12 months, according to research from supply chain consulting firm Inverto , part of BCG. Photo: iStock/coldsnowstorm July 7, 2025 SupplyChainBrain The number of electric freight vehicles (EVs) on U.K. roads grew 31% in the last 12 months, but still represents only 1.4%

Freight

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

After securing access to TuffAir’s materials, Amazon abruptly ceased communications, only to unveil a remarkably similar regional air cargo model within months, based on the same technical, operational and strategic elements TuffAir had disclosed,” the company alleged in its legal filing. No comment as yet on the suit from Amazon.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 27, 2025

The focus will now turn to interpretation and implementation risk, posing a mix of political and technical questions,” Carsten Nickel, deputy director of research at Teneo, wrote in a note. Beef Prices Soar to Record Highs Global Supply Chain Management Heathrow Considering Legal Action Against Utility Company Over Fire Air Cargo U.K.

Negotiate Pricing

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 3, 2025

dominance in biomedical research, sapping the incentive to invent new therapies, and preventing patients from getting medicines they need. The Standard and Poor’s 500 Pharmaceuticals Index fell 2.7% on July 31. The pharmaceutical industry has long protested the idea of globally linked drug prices as a threat to years of U.S.

Pharmaceutical

Freightos

MAY 27, 2025

Home Your Air Cargo Munich and Transport Logistics 2025 Survival Kit Four hectic days, one very large venueheres how to make every meeting count. May 27, 2025 Blog Four hectic days, one very large venueheres how to make every meeting count.

Cargo

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 23, 2025

June 24, 2025 SupplyChainBrain The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched a five-year, $10 million research project to look into health impacts on local communities from 2023s fiery train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

Study

Freightos

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Judah Levine November 21, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) decreased 8% to $1,573/FEU. In air cargo, Freightos Air Index data show China – N.

Negotiating Skills

Freightos

AUGUST 19, 2024

Crossing one million bookings annually in 2023, we’ve made significant headway in digitizing spot freight pricing and bookings, especially in air cargo. Together, we can offer a complete solution that covers the digital procurement of both spot and contract freight services, across air, ocean, road, and rail.

Optimal Sourcing

Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

Air Cargo World. This American based niche news site specialises in air cargo. Cargo Business News.com. based niche site, covering air, sea, rail and road cargo news. But within that, it has a very broad scope covering, not just air cargo, but all aviation, aerospace and space news. ACWmagazine. CargoBusiness.

Resource Reduction

GlobalTranz

JUNE 21, 2017

Supply Chain Insights , a research and advisory firm, hosts this weekly podcast that covers a variety of topics, from global thinking to voice of the customer. Each episode features a different special guest, who brings his/her unique opinions regarding topics such as logistics, supply chain, cargo, freight, transportation, and education.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Freightos

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

With the flipflops being pushed to the back of the closet, email auto-responders being reluctantly turned off and thoughts about procurement, market intelligence for 2023 tenders and Golden Week emerging, now is an ideal time for supply chain professionals to catch up on what they missed. Changing Trends in BCO Air Cargo Procurement.

Logistics

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Approach to Effective Freight Procurement by LSCMS Shippers’ Council Container shipping procurement faces a multitude of challenges shaped by global events, industry shifts, environmental mandates, and technological advancements. At the heart of it all, an effective procurement strategy remains paramount.

Optimal Sourcing