Freightos
DECEMBER 4, 2015
A quick check showed that shipping the TV from Taiwan to Nashville (ocean & trucking) led to about 6.7 The broader climate issue.and freight’s role. The emissions from freighting Shawn’s TV is a miniscule percentage of this year’s 33 billion ton cube. Click the button on the right to see our sources.
Resilinc
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Within a week of the COP26 conference wrapping up, massive floods in British Columbia severed the freight railroad serving the Vancouver, home of Canada’s largest port. The vulnerability of these three regions highlights the complexity of factoring climate change into sourcing decisions. If so, when?
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Supply Chain Matters
AUGUST 30, 2023
The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group, via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog calls reader attention to two recently published research papers that address evidence of ongoing shifts in global supply component and end production sourcing. The above seems to imply, from our lens, the movement toward China Plus sourcing activity.
Supply Chain Matters
JULY 15, 2022
The company will henceforth outsource the manufacturing of its stationary exercise bikes and treadmills to a Taiwan based contract manufacturer. Sourcing was both a cost as well as landed cost decision factor. The company was eventually forced to transport its bikes and equipment by more expensive air freight to avoid congested U.S.
Logility
MARCH 29, 2022
As the pandemic eased, ports suffered bottlenecks, natural disasters disrupted freight movement, railways suffered congestion, and new legislation further complicated the movement of goods. For example, COVID restrictions in Asia shut down auto production because 70% of chip manufacturing happens in Taiwan and South Korea.
Supply Chain Matters
MAY 30, 2023
The authors further observed that there was a notable upward contribution from Taiwan stocks of purchases. freight and logistics recession , we called attention to reports that the Logistics Manager Index (LMI) for April reached an all-time low of 50.9, characterized as the lowest reported reading in this index’s history.
Supply Chain Matters
APRIL 4, 2023
However, we discern some added signs excess inventories and of production sourcing shifts. Source: S&P Global, April, 2023 Highlights of Regional Reporting Developed Regions Eurozone The S&P Global Eurozone Manufacturing PMI® fell again in March to a value of 47.3 compared to the February value of 48.5, The March value of 48.6
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