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Europe's Ports Grapple with 'Uniquely Disruptive' Summer

Supply Chain Brain

The result has been a "perfect storm of disruptions" for Europes ports, says Heidi Benko, the VP of product management and strategy for cloud software provider Infor. Benko points to infrastructure issues that have become "painfully apparent" at European ports.

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The need to know

EFT

Egypt's Suez Canal offers 15% discount for big container ships to win back trade Egypt's Suez Canal will offer a 15% discount on transit fees for container ships with net tonnage of at least 130,000 metric tons, to encourage trade back now the security situation has eased and help ships offset rising insurance costs, its authorities said on Tuesday.

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Wildfires Briefly Shut Dardanelles as Heat Blasts Europe

Supply Chain Brain

Serbia, Croatia and Italy are dispatching firefighting aircraft to help tackle the blazes. Wildfires in Italy and Scotland this week also forced authorities to close tourist areas near Vesuvius National Park and Arthur’s Seat, respectively. A soldier died in Montenegro after troops were deployed to help contain the fires.

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Supply Chain & Logistic News (August 19th – 23rd) 

Logistics Viewpoints

The vehicle deployments are expected to lower emissions by 7,052 metric tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions annually, equivalent to 1,533 passenger cars removed from the road. I thought this was a very topical introduction to this week’s Supply Chain and logistics news Canadian Railroad Work Stoppage Threatens U.S

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

Located in the United Kingdom (UK), he has more than twelve years of experience in progressive roles driving demand-drive projects for their global supply chain. At the Supply Chain insights Global Summit , Nick shared his story on driving demand-based improvements. Understanding the Lubricant Supply Chain.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 18 – 24)

Logistics Viewpoints

The bank said Friday that it is launching new “Supply Availability Indexes” via a blog posting on Monday that going forward will feature as part of its regular monthly surveys of regional business activity. The new gauges can be joined with the bank’s monthly Global Supply Chain Pressures Index “to compare trends in the U.S

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The Evolution of a Supply Chain Planning Support Team

DynaSys

When I joined “DynaSys SA”, 16 years ago, the company was an independent French provider of Supply Chain software. We were 3 people supporting them, handling calls, answering questions, fixing bugs, all attached to R&D, in addition to a few additional persons supporting other older software and handling phone calls.