Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Wall Street Journal reported this week (Paid subscription or metered view) that ocean container freight rates related to the most active global shipping lanes continue to decline amid what is traditionally considered the peak shipping period leading up to the holiday fulfillment season in the November-December period.

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Intelligent Audit

JULY 5, 2022

In a continued effort to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, UPS has chosen to test out an electric cargo bicycle within crowded urban cities. The pedal-powered “E-Quad” resembles a miniature version of the traditional brown boxy cargo vans that UPS is known for, without the size that makes navigating urban areas difficult.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

Optimism is reflected in United States , Eurozone and select Asia data and the traditional Lunar New Year holiday period does not appear to have dampened Asia based production levels for February. Indices reflecting manufacturing across the United States were generally positive. Federal Bank of New York.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Dealing with the Shipping Container Crisis. The United States’ and Europe’s production of global semiconductors decreased from approximately 80% in 1990 to 20% in 2020. As of 2020, only 12% of semiconductor chips were made in the United States. (

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 22, 2015

Which countries are ranked as the best logistics performers (we have a long way to go United States). It is also defined as the procurement, maintenance, distribution, and replacement of personnel and material. This infographic comes to us from freightXtension who are experts in cross-border shipping.

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Locus

JUNE 3, 2022

Several effects of this have shown up in the last year alone, with hurricanes, floods and wildfires damaging infrastructure and extreme weather conditions shaking up the global economy: The Texas Freeze in 2021 was the worst blackout in the history of the United States as the state shivered in temperatures 40 degrees below average.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

Global Shipping. The World Container Index , assessed by Drewy Consultants, is a compilation of eight major shipping routes to and from the United States , Europe and Asia. Shipping Transit Timeliness. The Flexport Ocean Timeliness Indicator tracks average ocean container shipping transit times.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 23, 2015

For example, the Panama Canal has already restricted the size of ships permitted to pass through it due to drought conditions created by El Niño. As a result, some shipments moving from Asia to the Gulf Coast and eastern ports of the United States will be forced to reduce cargo loads to meet the new requirements.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 6, 2019

Bindiya Vakil ( @BindiyaVakil ), Resilinc CEO, notes, “Supply chain, sourcing and procurement professionals are on the front lines of managing global trade risks for their companies. Cargo caught up in industrial unrest : “Strikes, overtime bans, or work-to-rule can affect any transport mode, almost anywhere in the world.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 3, 2018

“117 such facilities were built across the United States from 2010 to 2016 for a total of 141.2 ” Burnson goes to note that e-commerce is having an impact on air freight hubs, maritime cargo, middlemen, and intermodal operations. ”[4]. He points to the growing number of fulfillment centers (i.e., ”[6].

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 5, 2014

For example, the widening of the Panama Canal will change the conditions here in North Carolina, as enormous container ships will be circumnavigating the globe. And in Panama a huge transshipment area will grow where they will will do break bulk, put cargo onto smaller ships and send to North America.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 27, 2020

For instance, in the United States, a regional brewer in the San Francisco Bay area, Alpha Acid, has teamed up with tech giant Oracle to develop a blockchain-technology platform that’s accelerating and automating supply chain transactions. Shortened release times for cargo offloaded at Shanghai port.

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

One manifestation of this problem is that multiple ports on the east coast are deepening their approach channels in order to attract bigger cargo ships. The widening of the Panama Canal to enable larger ships to pass through the trade artery will generate this traffic.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 28, 2018

Transpacific Air and Ocean Shipping Space Is Already Tight | Transportfolio. Peak shipping season has heated up early. A predictable pattern of events follows: shipping volumes spike, space on airlines and vessels becomes harder to secure, and prices go up. Shoulder season; shipping ramps up. Peak shipping season.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 14, 2023

5 Immediate Impacts of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 By Nat Josef Just when it seemed like bipartisanship was going the way of the dinosaurs, Congress recently came together to pass the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022, which President Biden signed into law on June 16th. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and John Thune (R-S.D.)

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

The United States has become one of the most prosperous and innovative nations on Earth due to its connectivity with the rest of the world via the oceans. and its trading partners that ships can carry. The growth of cargo moving through America’s ocean ports has increased significantly over the last two decades.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 15, 2022

UPS wants to ship packages in the metaverse. The filings are for goods and services including “non-fungible tokens” (NFTs); “virtual goods, namely, packages, parcels, [and] shipping labels;” and “virtual retail shipping.” ” I wonder if the metaverse expects same-day shipping.

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FLEXE

DECEMBER 11, 2016

I’m Nerijus Poskus — Director of Pricing and Procurement at Flexport. Basically, responsible for ocean freight carriers, ocean ships that rely on truck companies. Hanjin affected United States a lot more, the bankruptcy of Hanjin affected the United States a lot more than it affected the rest of the world.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 1, 2022

international ocean supply chain, negating possible collusion among ocean container shipping lines. The report indicates that competition among ocean common carriers and among the three major global shipping alliance groups is “ vigorous ” particularly in the Trans-Pacific segment. International Ocean supply Chain. Background.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 14, 2019

Reoccurring events—like the holiday season—used to provide some level of predictability to ocean shipping trends in the transpacific eastbound (TPEB) trade lane. Accordingly, significant volumes of ocean cargo shifted to earlier sailings than normal, disrupting typical volume trends in the third and fourth quarters of 2018.

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Freightos

MAY 31, 2022

World trade is built on a foundation of global shipping. In the two years prior to starting Freightos, I witnessed, as CEO of a company called Lightech, how international shipping is offline, opaque and inefficient, adding cost and uncertainty to cross-border trade. But it doesn’t always work. Enter Freightos. I’ve been there myself.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Even as political battlelines in the United States harden, the push for “Made in America” products is being made from both the right and left. Procurement must also be considered. In some cases, support for “Made in America” is more show than actual support. Reality says something quite different.

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Resilinc

MARCH 12, 2024

In 2023—if it wasn’t already—geopolitics became top of mind for every procurement professional. As a supply chain manager, it is impossible (and unwise) to ignore the state of global politics, as it directly impacts nearly every level of the supply chain, from increased shipping rates to access to critical materials and minerals.

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