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Logistics Viewpoints
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
When you can barely see beyond the bow of the ship, when extreme wind and waves threaten to throw you off course – or worse, sink you – it’s understandable that long-term thinking can get chucked overboard like so much extra ballast. It’s an apt metaphor for ocean shipping these past many months. And the list goes on.
Logistics Viewpoints
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
For example, shippers spent much of last year bemoaning soaring ocean shipping rates and ships waiting for days to unload once they reached their destination port. The post One Type of Inflation is Caused by Supply Chain Issues (And That is a Good Thing) appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.
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Logistics Viewpoints
AUGUST 17, 2021
With summer winding down, we take a look back at the major trends that occurred in ocean shipping in the first half of 2021 and reflect on what your organization can do to proactively prevent major supply chain disruption. The import dwell times at the Port of Long Beach fluctuated throughout the first half of 2021, with a high of 9 days.
Logistics Viewpoints
OCTOBER 6, 2021
Furthermore, this is the case not just with retailers but also wholesalers and manufacturers. Orders for automobiles are backlogged due to upstream manufacturing supply disruptions, most notably, computer chips for vehicles. Source: Descartes Datamyne. Of the 157, 95 were container ships including 62 at anchor or in drift areas.
Logistics Viewpoints
AUGUST 29, 2022
For AGCO, a public company with over $11 billion in revenues, a supply chain risk management application helped the agricultural equipment manufacturer stay agile during COVID. One of the players in this market, Resilinc, is monitoring 105 million data sources. AGCO Stayed Nimble during the Pandemic. This data needs to be curated.
Supply Chain Game Changer
JULY 2, 2021
Shipping container shortage article and permission to publish here provided by Sam White at Argentus. The massive global shipping squeeze. In their story about the shipping shortage, the CBC quoted shipping analyst Alan Murphy, who detailed how this changing demand has massively disrupted the global shipping market.
Supply Chain Matters
OCTOBER 25, 2022
West Coast Container Ship Backup Has Ended. In our Supply Chain Matters news capsule of September 27, we pointed out that business, supply chain and transportation media had reported this that the cost of shipping a container of goods from China to the U.S. Whereas the spot rate to ship a container from China to the U.S.
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