BlueYonder

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We all recognize that the world’s supply chains need to operate in a sustainable manner and minimize their environmental impacts — but recent events have brought this closer to home than ever. Under normal operating conditions, the Panama Canal handles 36 to 38 ships per day. How desperate are shippers becoming?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2023

The nations with the most flagged vehicles are Panama, China, Singapore, the Marshall Islands, and Liberia. But rather than retrofit, it may be cheaper just to replace old ships with new ships built from the ground up to be sustainable. New technologies are being explored including high tech “sails” mounted to a ship’s deck.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 12, 2024

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Panama on Wednesday unveiled plans for a “dry canal” to move cargo between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans due to low water levels in its century-old maritime channel. Now 27 ships navigate the Panama Canal each day, compared with 39 previously.

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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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TMC

DECEMBER 8, 2016

New Panama Canal Options: Running the Numbers with a TMS.Connect by TMC. When the expanded Panama Canal opened this June, a new set of routes became available for shippers and beneficial cargo owners (BCOs). A transportation management system (TMS) can help shippers weigh the pros and cons of each option. Triad of factors.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

These disruptions occur for myriad reasons, such as factory disruptions in China or ships getting stuck in the Panama Canal. A disruption in one function impacts all other functions across the supply chain, including supplier management, order management, transportation management, warehouse management, and demand management.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Imagine that a carrying vessel is on a laden voyage from ports in the Far East to ports in Panama and the U.S. The vessel carrying your freight sustains damage and requires repair at a port of refuge in order to proceed with the intended voyage. This vessel carries 1,500 containers; one of them is yours. Final Thoughts.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 22, 2024

And now on to this week’s logistics news. The CFC, which consists of transportation stakeholders across the trucking and motorcoach industries, says that policymakers must address these cost concerns and infrastructure hurdles to make an electrified supply chain function smoothly for the American economy. Intel wins $19.5

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

Noted was a sustained rise in production levels and a further drop in backlogs of work. 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.

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MIT Supply Chain

JUNE 3, 2021

As companies look to restructure their global supply chains in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and other disruptive forces, the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has an opportunity to become the next manufacturing and logistics hub. The region could capitalize on the nearshoring trend given its nearness to US markets.

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ThroughPut

MAY 9, 2024

Identify Vulnerabilities For a resilient supply chain, you need to identify Vulnerabilities, most supply-chain vulnerabilities manifest in areas such as planning and supplier networks, transportation and logistics systems , financial resiliency, product complexity, and organizational maturity.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 10, 2023

Thus, de-carbonization mitigation efforts become more focused on supply chain strategy and policy actions along with product sourcing and transportation movement efforts weighted toward de-carbonization. Once more, this does not solely apply to businesses, but also transportation and logistics services firms as well.

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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. The storm made landfall near Keaton Beach, Florida as Category 3 hurricane storm with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph. Gulf Coast or major East Coast ports.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 16, 2016

Goods have to be transported across the globe and across the neighbourhood. To manage this logistics complexity while adhering to customer service standards and incurring reasonable costs, companies need Global Logistics Integration. Mindmap for Global Logistics Integration. Choose country. Afghanistan. Åland Islands.

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