Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The report additionally cites the reasons for this year’s low levels of traditional hiring as being the NRF’s indications of lowered expected holiday spending on products and that retailers and logistics services providers can meet additional demand with existing part-time employees. All rights reserved.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Judah Levine November 15, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 6% to $1,711/FEU.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Judah Levine December 28, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 7% to $1,659/FEU. But the number of impacted Asia – N.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Judah Levine February 13, 2024 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 11% to $4,859/FEU.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Judah Levine December 19, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) fell 3% to $1,556/FEU.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 5, 2014

For example, the widening of the Panama Canal will change the conditions here in North Carolina, as enormous container ships will be circumnavigating the globe. And in Panama a huge transshipment area will grow where they will will do break bulk, put cargo onto smaller ships and send to North America.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 8, 2016

Panama Canal Expansion. The Panama Canal expansion, slated for completion this spring, will impact logistics in a big way. You can read more on the topic in our recent white paper, Wide Open: How the Panama Canal Expansion Is Redrawing the Logistics Map , which was written collaboratively with Boston Consulting Group.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

As 2024 begins, two of the world’s most critical ocean transit corridors, the Suez Canal , and the Panama Canal are facing threats of shipping disruption as global geopolitical tensions and terrorist threats escalate. Truck and rail transportation movements across the Mexico and U.S.

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3PL Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

However, Nerijus Poskus, director of pricing and procurement for the freight forwarder and customs broker Flexport, predicts that this spike won’t last longer than one or two months. In addition, the recent expansion of the Panama Canal has led companies to build larger, newer ships. But now, hundreds of these ships sit empty and idle.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A new consideration to such shifts is a current development related to ongoing concerns toward increased lowered water levels in the approaches to the Panama Canal. In this storms path have been significant wind and flooding related damage along with disruptions to transportation and logistics that are now being assessed.

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Precoro

MARCH 22, 2023

Let's look at some specific steps that procurement leaders can take to minimize the possible financial impact of supply chain disruption. Invest in sophisticated procurement systems , automation, and AI to capture data that maximizes the end-to-end visibility of capacity, demand, finances, inventory, and supply.

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Resilinc

JULY 19, 2022

At the same time, street blockades and trucker strikes are exacerbating those desabastecimientos in population centers such as Panama City. For supply chain managers, the labor actions of greatest concern are in transport and logistics. They are also disrupting global supply chains.

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Freightos

JANUARY 24, 2024

Judah Levine January 24, 2024 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 15% to $2,966/FEU.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

Inventory management and cost control remains paramount including mitigating the risks of added disruptions in global wide ocean transport brought about by the Red Sea and associated Suez Canal diversions as well as Panama Canal transit time increases. All rights reserved.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

DECEMBER 19, 2016

From the Panama Canal opening to a record year in ecommerce, the happenings of 2016 have kept everyone on their toes. The Panama Canal is a prime example of a global vision being realized. With the rise of autonomous vehicles and global procurement, 2017 is gearing up to be another big year for the transportation industry.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 6, 2023

The most significant news in global transportation and logistics circles late last week and this week are U.S. End to end logistics visibility technology provider projet44 provided Supply Chain Matters the below chart depicting median import and export dwell times for the Port of Los Angeles that depicts the actual daily impacts.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 10, 2023

Once more, this does not solely apply to businesses, but also transportation and logistics services firms as well. As the BBC noted in its reporting last week : “ Small states like the Marshall Islands, Liberia and Panama have huge numbers of ships sailing under their national flags but they have no real responsibility for these vessels.”

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Freightos

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Judah Levine December 13, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) fell 1% to $1,603/FEU.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Judah Levine December 6, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) were level at $1,620/FEU.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Judah Levine November 28, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 3% to $1,613/FEU.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Related Concern The related concern is the ongoing drought conditions in the areas surrounding the Panama Canal which for weeks have restricted the volume of vessels that can transit this canal because of the low water levels in the staging basin area. container traffic travels through the Panama Canal every year.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

Business media has further reinforced that at same time, the Panama Canal , which is the globe’s other key transit route. Is the context being applied to the Red Sea disruption, or to the broader and ongoing combined Red Sea and Panama Canal related disruptions? That has since led to rebels targeting U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 5, 2024

Business media has further reinforced that at same time, the Panama Canal , which is the globe’s other key transit route, continues to deal with restraining daily transit levels because of low water levels brought about by severe drought. Here are, from our lens are some early evidence points.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 14, 2016

Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) are designed to boost economic growth through trade by opening markets by way of progressive removal of customs duties, eliminating or reducing trade barriers and tariffs, lifting restrictions on services and even through public procurement. Netherlands Antilles.

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