Logistics Bureau

APRIL 2, 2020

The huge build-up of containers at China’s docks has created a major ocean freight imbalance, with a shortage of cargo in US and European ports and a shortfall in boxes needed by Western exporters to ship products to other parts of the world. Ocean Freight. Air Freight. Ocean Freight. Measuring the Imbalances*.

China 53

China Los Angeles Europe Australia 53

Freightos

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Freight In The Year Of The Monkey. China’s role in world trade is so large that even small changes can have a broad impact on the international freight industry. On February 15th, 2016, the first freight train from China reached the capital of Iran, shaving 30 days off the standard port-to-port transport time.

Freight 120

Freight Rail Software Iran Logistics Network Optimization Software 120

Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 24, 2020

Iran and Spain were highly infected. Real Time Risk Management Governance. Government delays in seriously dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic are a case in point. Shortly thereafter the tsunami of infections overtook Europe. Italy locked down the country. And the U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software 82

Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Manufacturing Procurement Supply Chain Design 82

Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

shale or Iran, for example. The United States and Iran have been engaged in indirect nuclear talks in Vienna that could lead to the removal of sanctions on Iranian oil sales. Carriers, freight forwarders, and shippers that were dealing with the China to North America trade lanes were already operating in crisis mode.

Price Reduction 207

Price Reduction Ukraine Russia Logistics Network Optimization Software 207

Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This is due in part to the chokepoints they cause in the flow of global freight as well as the fact that they give people access to resources and commercial activity more effectively. The Panamanian government decided to enlarge the Panama Canal in 2006. billion US dollar expansion project. In 2016, about 2.4

Panama 52

Panama Egypt Asia 52

Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Even the most conservative estimate places the count around 10: (i) the seller, (ii) the insurer, (iii) the origin warehouse, (iv) the origin trucker, (v) the ocean carrier, (vi) the destination trucker, (vii) the destination warehouse, (viii) the buyer, and (ix) the freight forwarder. government decides that a non-U.S. When the U.S.

Iran 40

Iran Supply Chain Design Supply Chain Planning Supply Chain 40