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Supply Chain Matters
JUNE 23, 2025
military installations in Qatar and Iraq. The report cites freight intelligence firm Xeneta as indicating that average spot rates for movement from China to Middle Eastern ports had spiked 55 percent through Friday of last week while large crude tanker spot rates were up 154 percent week over week through Thursday.
Supply Chain Brain
JULY 9, 2025
Trump on July 9 also said he would levy a 30% rate on Algeria, Libya, Iraq and Sri Lanka, with 25% duties on products from Brunei and Moldova and a 20% rate on goods from the Philippines. This Trial should not be taking place. It is a Witch Hunt that should end IMMEDIATELY!” Trump wrote in the letter. billion of goods to the U.S.
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GlobalTranz
JANUARY 12, 2015
This is the first post in a two part series on the “Changing Face of Manufacturing.” ” We have many manufacturing shipper customers, and we love to create content of value for them on such subjects as best practices in logistics or trends around the supply chain. Drop in the price of crude oil.
Talking Logistics
DECEMBER 16, 2015
How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? Terrorism : The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, coupled with the ongoing instability in Syria and Iraq and the spread of ISIS, have raised the risk for terrorism-related supply chain disruptions in 2016.
CH Robinson Transportfolio
AUGUST 26, 2014
For those of us in neighboring states, North Dakota is the source of a clichéd “giant sucking sound,” the likes of which this generation has never experienced. The oil and gas industry impacts freight transportation in four significant areas: Diesel Prices. And it has all happened incredibly quickly. Rail Capacity.
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