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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

As part of our ongoing commitment to keep our blog readers updated on what’s happening in the supply chain and logistics world, we’re launching a regular industry news roundup, which we’ll release periodically. Kazakhstan in Tit for Tat Spat Over Russia Sanctions. Even if You Can Buy it, Can You Move it?

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Many people get really confused about KPIs or Key Performance Indicators in Logistics and Supply Chain operations. Cost as a percentage of sales (Logistics or Supply Chain). It might help to think of a KPI as something like an instrument on a car dashboard—a speedometer for example. Which ones to use?…

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China Restricts Exports on Two Chip Metals, Raising Supply Chain Concerns

Exiger Perspectives

Defense Logistics Agency, for example, has stockpiled germanium and undertaken recycling initiatives to minimize negative impacts. The restrictions from China may trigger former producers in Germany and Kazakhstan to restart commercial production, which could provide the U.S. And about half of the U.S.

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The New Silk Road: Have You Evaluated Your Freight Options?

TMC

Silk Road increases global logistics options. Many shippers are already taking advantage of the new global logistics options. For example, the Financial Times reported that U.S. For example, trains often must negotiate different national rail gauges along cross-border routes, and this can affect transit times.

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The New Silk Road: Have You Evaluated Your Freight Options?

TMC

Silk Road increases global logistics options. Many shippers are already taking advantage of the new global logistics options. For example, the Financial Times reported that U.S. For example, trains often must negotiate different national rail gauges along cross-border routes, and this can affect transit times.

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The Belt and Road Initiative: Rail Service between Europe and Asia

CH Robinson Transportfolio

For example, you might be surprised how beneficial rail service between Europe and Asia can be for your business today. . Accordingly, they developed new logistic strategies to decrease those labor costs. This is the key to reliably meeting all of your logistics services and technology needs today and in the future.

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China’s Historic Silk Road is Resurrected from the Rubble

Elementum

This will include a rail route stretching from Chongqing, China, through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, and Poland to Duisburg in Germany. If completed according to plan, it will reintroduce ancient land routes connecting China with Europe via parts of Central Asia and the Middle East. The second prong is the “21st Century Maritime route.”

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