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TPM25: Key Takeaways on Trade wars, the Red Sea and Tech for 2025

Freightos

Home TPM25: Key Takeaways on Trade wars, the Red Sea and Tech for 2025 Discover the latest insights on US trade wars, Red Sea shipping disruptions, and freight technology trends from TPM 2025. Ocean container shipping is an inherently volatile market, with the past few years displaying extreme examples of spot price fluctuations.

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Red Sea Insurance Premium Spikes as Houthi Risks Return

Supply Chain Brain

Container shipping rates have surged nearly 30 percent as ships continue to be diverted from the Red Sea due to attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels. Container shipping rates have surged nearly 30 percent as ships continue to be diverted from the Red Sea due to attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels. to about 1% now.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 10 – 16)

Logistics Viewpoints

The international inbound transportation service is only available to Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) sellers that source or manufacture goods in China, and all cargo must be shipped from Yantian, Shanghai, or Ningbo ports. And with that, I bid you adieu, and let’s move on to this week’s logistics news. Cargo imported into the U.S.

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ToolsGroup Announces Launch of Dynamic Fulfillment for Real-Time Order Fulfillment Optimization in Retail

ToolsGroup

Trying to manage an effective ship-from-store program only exasperates this issue. A significant addition to our Inventory Hub® product, Dynamic Fulfillment leverages advanced optimization logic to determine what to ship, from where, in real-time, to reduce shipping costs, improve margins, and satisfy empowered customers.

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Peet’s Coffee and the Roasted Bean Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

The company has a sourcing team that vets the beans. In DSD, instead of shipping truckload quantities of goods directly to a retailer’s regional distribution center every few weeks, a manufacturer has their own account representatives that sell to and service individual stores. Those reps go into stores and stock the store shelves.

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Yantian Port Congestion: How Can Shippers Navigate Another Major Supply Chain Disruption?

CH Robinson Transportfolio

A good example of how this plays out is in the case of congestion at the Port of Oakland. Over the last few months, as the delays at the LA port were mounting, carriers started diverting sailings to Oakland. Oakland is now also severely congested and suffering from the same unpredictability. The result? Final thoughts.

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China Exports Rebound Even as Western Markets Face Lockdown

Logistics Bureau

The huge build-up of containers at China’s docks has created a major ocean freight imbalance, with a shortage of cargo in US and European ports and a shortfall in boxes needed by Western exporters to ship products to other parts of the world. Some ports are quarantining arriving ships for 14 days. percent slump in exports from Europe.

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