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.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2025

and Vietnam have been far short of comprehensive, leaving many details unclear. Featured Product Popular Stories End to De Minimis Slows Flow of Air Cargo from China to U.S. Most of the tariff rates, however, were largely in line with what Trump had already announced the nations were likely to face.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 8, 2025

Dockworkers, Port Employers Set to Restart Talks Bloomberg Vietnam Inks Deals to Buy $3 Billion U.S. has begun shipping commercial jets to China for the first time since early April, indicating a reopening of trade flows despite the long-simmering tariff war between the U.S. and Asia’s biggest economy. and Asia’s biggest economy.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 6, 2025

Apparel and footwear production hubs in Asia, including China and Vietnam, face elevated tariff rates as the White House pushes for new trade deals. The company and its retail peers are trying to manage supply chains that have been upended by U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade wars.

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

While prices to Long Beach from both Shanghai and Vietnams Saigon Port increased more than 40% between the time of the reciprocal tariff announcement on April 2nd and their start date on April 9th, since then Shanghai – Long Beach rates have fallen more than 30% while prices out of Saigon have remained at their elevated level.

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Freightos

APRIL 16, 2025

Interestingly, while rates from China have declined, prices from Taiwan and Vietnam have remained elevatedlikely reflecting importers’ rapid pivot to alternative sourcing markets. Cash Flow Crunch Cash flow is always top of mind for small business, especially importers who have to front payments for their cost of goods.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 16, 2023

It appears that operational and procurement risks for beneficial cargo owners or shippers, in the short term, are minimal. The areas that will be deliberated in future articles are ocean shipping market landscape, freight procurement, reliability & visibility and the competitive landscape.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 19, 2020

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. It is also airlifting parts from China to its Vietnam operations. The Food Industry. It takes time to turn a moving ship around, though, so this will not happen immediately.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2020

The impact on supply chains is particularly apparent in the following two broad areas— shipping and procurement of products/components/raw materials. Ports in the United States, The Netherlands, Britain, France, and elsewhere have reported a drop in cargo volumes ranging from around 5 percent in January to an estimated 25 percent in February.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

A country of continued optimism remains that of Vietnam , which has been the go-to country for businesses seeking to manage supply network risk exposure in China. The IHS Markit Vietnam Manufacturing PMI® rose again to a level of 54.3 Inflationary pressures reportedly remain a concern. for February, up from 53.7 reported for January.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In 2017, Smith & Nephew expanded its use of business network and cloud-based applications to support a centralized, efficient procurement process for managing spending from end to end. In 2018, Wayfair expanded its warehouse and logistics investments in the U.S. Recently, Wayfair turned its attention toward first-mile delivery as well.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

A further factor was that air cargo rates are now down upwards of 80 percent because of lower volumes and excess capacity among carriers and commercial airlines. Revenues for the FedEx Ground unit, this carrier’s engine of E-Commerce last-mile fulfillment, came in at $300 million below forecast.

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Freightos

MAY 7, 2025

Despite dropping volumes out of China and some increase in demand out of other countries like Vietnam, transpacific container rates were level this week as carriers have successfully reduced capacity to current volume levels through a significant number of blanked sailings and service adjustments.

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

Though country-to-country level data shows rates to the US have increased slightly from origins like Vietnam since the tariff pause, prices from China despite reports of a sharp drop in demand have surprisingly not collapsed. On the overall lane level FBX Asia – N. America rates eased only slightly last week.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2020

In line with these pandemic times, while the ASEAN meeting was nominally held in Hanoi, Vietnam, it was a virtual signing ceremony that saw 15 countries in Asia Pacific become part of what is now the world’s largest free trade agreement, representing 30 percent of global gross domestic product and encompassing almost 2.3 billion people.

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Freightos

APRIL 16, 2025

Freightos Terminal data shows that container rates from China, Taiwan and Vietnam to the Long Beach all climbed sharply following the April 2nd tariff announcements possibly reflecting the rush to load goods by April 9th when the reciprocal tariffs went into effect.

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Freightos

APRIL 3, 2025

This trend was apparent in the increases in US trade with Mexico and Canada, and with alternatives in Asia like Vietnam, India, Taiwan and Bangladesh at the expense of Chinese imports to the US which declined from 20% of total US imports in 2018 to 13% in 2024.

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Freightos

APRIL 8, 2025

Many other countries, including Vietnam, are actively trying to negotiate a resolution instead. This final rush included a scramble not only to load containers, but some quick shift to LCL and air cargo too. In the meantime, the trade war intensification is increasing the likelihood of recession in the US and beyond.

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

While prices to Long Beach from both Shanghai and Vietnams Saigon Port increased more than 40% between the time of the reciprocal tariff announcement on April 2nd and their start date on April 9th, since then Shanghai – Long Beach rates have fallen more than 30% while prices out of Saigon have remained at their elevated level.

Asia 156

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Freightos

MAY 13, 2025

Volumes in March and April were 11% higher than in 2024 and featured one of the strongest Aprils on record , though some of that growth was from countries other than China, like Vietnam and Thailand. Freightos Air Index China – US air cargo spot rates were level last week at $5.28/kg, kg, down from about $5.50/kg

China 156

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

Though country-to-country level data shows rates to the US have increased slightly from origins like Vietnam since the tariff pause, prices from China despite reports of a sharp drop in demand have surprisingly not collapsed. On the overall lane level FBX Asia – N. America rates eased only slightly last week.

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