Logistics Viewpoints
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
But SHIFEX, the freight forwarder rate index, recently recorded the lowest ocean freight rate between China and the port of Long Beach in 24 months —a rate of $3,500 to move a 40-foot container. This is an 80% drop year on year drop. When the Federal Reserve (the Fed) believes inflation is too high, they raise interest rates.
Logistics Viewpoints
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
This shortage is the culmination of various ongoing issues – geopolitical tensions related to the Russia-Ukraine war, the rapid shift in consumer buying behavior and container freight availability. This article is from Chetan Chaudhari at GEP and examines the ongoing aluminum can shortage. What’s Next?
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Supply Chain Matters
MARCH 23, 2022
In this Supply Chain Matters March 23 rd edition of our COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict News Capsule, we provide updates to ongoing industry supply chain developments and disruptions of concern to our reading audience. China Silk Road Rail Link Disrupted. China Silk Road Rail Link Disrupted. East Coast Ports the Likely Next Test.
The Logistics of Logistics
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
Oren is the Founder and CEO of Flock Freight , a Certified B Corporation that’s been reinventing freight shipping since 2015. Raised by parents who worked for a van line and later started their own freight forwarders, Oren has deep-seated roots in logistics and entrepreneurship. About Flock Freight. and Canada.
Supply Chain Matters
OCTOBER 25, 2022
The report further indicates that two downstream suppliers in China that rely on the parts and assemble them into larger modules are also cutting their production 70 percent and 90 percent, respectively. Whereas the spot rate to ship a container from China to the U.S. West Coast had declined to the lowest level in more than two years.
Logility
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Then came Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Between them, Ukraine and Russia account for approximately one-third of global wheat production. Between them, Ukraine and Russia account for approximately one-third of global wheat production. By 1979, China was one of the globe’s fastest-growing economies.
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 18, 2023
Over four-hundred days of war in Ukraine. Growing tensions between China and trading partners. As consumer spending fell, the days of escalating ocean freight and extreme shipping variability eased this year. Unrest in Sudan. In March 2023, the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index fell to the lowest level since November 2008.
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