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10 Disruptive Issues in the Supply Chain

American Global Logistics

Persistent Red Sea Risks Continue to Disrupt Critical Trade Route The ongoing conflict in Yemen has created several shipping risks in the Red Sea. has been working to negotiate a ceasefire in Yemen. Re-shoring involves moving manufacturing or production back to a country from which it was previously outsourced.

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Ship Smarter: How to Avoid Bottlenecks in Your Global Operations

ThroughPut

Maybe you wouldn’t need to consider upheaving your operations and relocating your warehouse as a result of shifting trade patterns, like 48% of supply chain and transportation executives are doing now. manufacturers do to better understand global supply chain operations when exporting goods abroad? The only problem: Most U.S.

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How the Coronavirus is underscoring the relevance of Global Supply Chain throughput: From the Frontlines of Yokohama, Milan, and Southern Florida

ThroughPut

Somehow, though, even with two parents in the medical field, the Oil & Gas industry recruited me first, and I ended up becoming a field operations engineer working across onshore, offshore, and warzone logistics & chemical manufacturing operations. At least that’s how I see it. Shelves that usually carry pasta and water were empty.

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Your Supply Chain to Increase Efficiency and Sustainability

ThroughPut

How you manage the transformation and transportation of assets in that supply chain ultimately determines the value you create for the world. Manufacturing is a precise process that is hard to systematize and just as hard to monitor. As a result, no manufacturer in history has ever been able to capture 100% of its productivity.

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Your Supply Chain to Increase Efficiency and Sustainability

ThroughPut

How you manage the transformation and transportation of assets in that supply chain ultimately determines the value you create for the world. Manufacturing is a precise process that is hard to systematize and just as hard to monitor. As a result, no manufacturer in history has ever been able to capture 100% of its productivity.

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Top 8 Industries Affected by The Red Sea Crisis in January 2024

Resilinc

struck more than 60 targets at Houthi positions in Yemen, aiming to halt attacks on merchant ships. imposed sanctions on two companies based in Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates for their involvement in financing commodity shipments benefiting Yemen’s Houthis. On January 11, the U.S. The next day, the U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

percent from November to December 2023 as militant attacks on merchant vessels in the Red Sea led to a plunge in the volumes of cargo transported in that key region, a German economic institute said on Thursday. Global trade declined by 1.3 Red Sea diversions mean container lines need more ships to carry the same amount of cargo.