Supply Chain Digest

JULY 18, 2025

” 3000+ That is the number of new cars that we being transported on the Morning Midas, a cargo ship headed to Mexico and which sank in the North Pacific on Monday, nearly three weeks after a fiery blaze broke out on board. ” Year-to-date, compared with the same period in 2024, tonnage was up a scant 0.1%. What is going on?

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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.

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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.

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IT Supply Chain

JULY 10, 2025

Developers conduct extensive user research, gather feedback, and continuously iterate on designs to deliver intuitive and efficient systems. Research from the Data Visualization Society found that effective visualization reduces the cognitive load required to analyze information, making it easier for users to interpret data trends.

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IT Supply Chain

JULY 14, 2025

The Key Advantages of Implementing Barge Pumping Solutions By Mike Bronson (pictured) Content Writer 78 Views Industrial sectors that depend on liquid cargo movement, such as oil and gas, chemical production, or maritime transport, face constant pressure to improve efficiency while keeping costs under control.

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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.

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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.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 18, 2025

If the cargo needs to come by ship, and there’s only one nearby port the supplier is setup to ship from, one strike or accident that shuts down the port shuts off your supply line. Copyright 2025, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters blog. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 7, 2025

maritime transportation, state of the art warehousing, logistics and air freight capabilities. based maritime transport, added logistics and warehouse services. Further, 400 new and expanded state-of-the-art warehouses across the U.S. Copyright 2025, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters blog.

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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.

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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.

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EFT

MAY 19, 2025

cargo have surged since the countries declared a 90-day truce on punitive tit-for-tat tariffs last weekend, operators said, spawning traffic jams at Chinese ports and factories that could take weeks to clear. China to US ocean cargo bookings surge after tariff pause, Vizion says U.S. retailers including Walmart (WMT.N)

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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.

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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.

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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 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.

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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%

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Freightos

APRIL 2, 2024

More Resources Home Ahead of the Curve: How Digitalization Helped Air Cargo Amidst Red Sea Shipping Diversions Joyce Tai April 2, 2024 If there’s one lingering lesson from the supply chain crisis of COVID, it’s that digitization can help organizations navigate crises…but that digitization can’t be put in place DURING that same crisis.

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Freightos

APRIL 25, 2024

More Resources Home The Impact of Fast Fashion Giants On Air Cargo Eytan Buchman April 25, 2024 Navigating New Horizons: The Impact of Fast Fashion on Air Cargo Rates & Dynamics The intersection of fast fashion, globalized retail e-commerce, and air cargo logistics is coming to a head with Temu and Shein’s entrance to the US market.

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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.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Third party logistics (3PL) is the function by where the owner of goods outsources numerous components of the supply chain to a 3PL company that can perform the management function of the clients’ customs, inbound freight, distribution, warehousing, order fulfilment and outbound freight to the client’s customers.

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Freightos

MARCH 19, 2024

But the discussion quickly turned to exploring why – given the marked shift to eBookings in air cargo – does the prevalence of eBookings in ocean logistics still lag so far behind? And forwarders also add value in orchestrating many of the other moving parts like first and last mile, warehousing, customs and insurance.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Avenues of transport are declining as major cargo airlines, like Cathay Pacific , drastically reduce flights to mainland China and Hong Kong. Research conducted by AIMMS found that 38% of supply chain professionals require multiple weeks to address their network-related?questions. we need q uickly.? questions.

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Freightos

APRIL 15, 2024

Today, tech dominates their homepage, touching on self-service shipment management, tracking, quoting, PO management, warehouse management and more. He still likes Minidisc players and has never skied.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2022

Researchers at Tesla have developed a new design for electric vehicle batteries that could last up to 100 years before needing to be replaced. However, by creating a new nickel-based battery that can last five times as long, Tesla and the researchers working on the new project hope to make EVs even more lucrative compared to gas guzzlers.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

Third-party logistics companies ( 3PLs ) specialize in distribution, warehousing and fulfillment services. Today, there are many top 3PL warehousing companies that handle warehousing, fulfillment, logistics and distribution services for companies of all sizes. Revenue: €63.3 billion/$72.43

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

That said, implementing Lean concepts would undoubtedly be part of that strategy, for example, - Lean Warehousing : Many firms (both retailers and manufacturers) are now aggressively rolling out Lean in their warehouse operations. Eliminate Before You Automate : Automation is critical to large, efficient warehouse operations.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 1, 2015

Here are nine items to look for when searching for the best freight forwarder for your company: Research, Research, Research. By using the web, a shipper can research a freight forwarder’s legal requirements. Research what insurance company the freight forwarder is aligned with. Warehousing.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 17, 2016

In a recent research note, analyst James Cooke of Nucleus Research explained the underlying problem. Distribution centers are designed for receiving, warehousing, and shipment. Nucleus says labor costs per unit to pick from the store are typically six times higher than in a warehouse. Here’s why.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

This morning, my mailbox was bombarded with the news of tentative agreement of the settlement of the nine-month labor conflict between the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). When not knee-deep in supply chain research, Lora loves to quilt, knit and dance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Trucking, warehousing, and parcel-delivery companies added a combined 10,700 jobs from December to January, according to seasonally adjusted preliminary employment figures released Friday by the U.S. Delta Cargo , a unit of Delta Air Lines Inc., But sometimes, branding has to take a back seat to sustainability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 26, 2024

The proportion of work-related injuries among newly hired workers increased from 2017 to 2022, with workers under 25 reporting more frequent injuries than those 55 and older, according to a report released by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. The report, which analyzed 8.4

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