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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

However, emptying the contents of silos into the holds of ships is only one small part of the problem. As part of the export deal , Vladimir Putin’s forces must maintain a truce with Ukraine in the vicinity of the ports to allow ships to arrive and depart and be guided through mined waters by Ukrainian pilots.

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The move to rail: a look at China-Europe supply chains

Resilinc

But it was featured on CNN Business and in other business media because it had traveled 6,000 miles from Xian China and represented a growing trend in China-Europe supply chains: shifting a portion of container traffic away from pricey and congested ocean shipping lanes to rail.

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

TMC

This shows that shippers are capitalizing on new mode/route combinations that will help them save cost, reduce lead time, and mitigate supply chain disruptions and risks (such as labor disputes in the ocean shipping industry). To capture benefits like these, shippers need to be opportunistic. Identify global trade opportunities.

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

TMC

This shows that shippers are capitalizing on new mode/route combinations that will help them save cost, reduce lead time, and mitigate supply chain disruptions and risks (such as labor disputes in the ocean shipping industry). To capture benefits like these, shippers need to be opportunistic. Identify global trade opportunities.

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Download now: 3PL Subway Map Europe 2016

Supply Chain Movement

Kazakhstan. Eyefortransport is currently seeing major consolidation occurring in the shipping industry and expects to see further moves as logistics providers look to take advantage of e-commerce, cross-border trade and shifting global demand. Holy See (Vatican City State). Iran, Islamic Republic of. Isle of Man. Korea, Republic of.

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Strategic moves among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

Kazakhstan. Eyefortransport is currently seeing major consolidation occurring in the shipping industry and expects to see further moves as logistics providers look to take advantage of e-commerce, cross-border trade and shifting global demand. Holy See (Vatican City State). Iran, Islamic Republic of. Isle of Man. Korea, Republic of.

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Kazakhstan Planning to Increase Oil Supplies to Germany

Supply Chain Brain

Tokayev said that Kazakhstan has shipped roughly 500,000 metric tons of crude oil to Germany’s Schwedt refinery through 2023.