Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

However, the lessons garnered during the pandemic will likely drive inventory management toward less of a dependency on global-wide sourcing and more toward product postponement sourcing and customer fulfillment strategies. Truck and rail transportation movements across the Mexico and U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As we have noted in this thread of updates, to a further extent, shipments from Asia eastward that traverse the Panama Canal are an important added backdrop to ocean transport disruption impacts. In parallel is the assessing of the related restricted ship transit volumes surrounding the Panama Canal because of low water levels.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 13, 2023

Now we have labour disruptions and the Panama Canal drought, which in normal circumstances would lead to an uptick in freight rates as they adsorb effective capacity, but any significant price effect is now highly doubtful in the current market.” This survey was conducted in May among participants in the global freight forwarding community.

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Precoro

MARCH 22, 2023

Such an interruption can affect any of the supply chain steps, often involving sourcing of raw materials, production, and distribution of goods or services. Let's look at some specific steps that procurement leaders can take to minimize the possible financial impact of supply chain disruption. Diversify your suppliers.

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ThroughPut

MAY 9, 2024

Businesses can no longer afford to function based on a linear “push” model – where they procure raw materials, produce goods, and go to market with what they have, whenever they have it. A resilient supply chain has great visibility and the agility to shift sourcing, manufacturing and distribution activities around fairly rapidly.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In the short term, drought-conditions that continue in the waters surrounding the Panama Canal continue to face long waits for traversing, or potential detours. Some carriers who invested prior windfall profits in other non-freight and global logistics related areas may have a buffer in costs and potential offsetting revenues.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

We view such an indicator as clear evidence that sourcing for lowest cost manufacturing is again apparent among multi-industry supply networks. For the first time in many months, report authors identified export order demands originating countries as being Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, Indonesia and the United States.

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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. Be prepared for a more urgent yet pragmatic approach by businesses and governments on accelerated global warming evidence.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Transit to and from the Panama Canal further remains constrained by lower basin water levels brought about by climate drought conditions. Various ocean container and bulk shipping vessels remain compelled to bypass this transit point to and from the Suez Canal , and to route instead around Africa to reach European and other major ports.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 14, 2019

This shows importers are shifting their sourcing locations to countries other than China. gulf region due to Panama Canal restrictions. In fact, there were some instances where vessels had to unload cargo in Panama to get through the canal. Procure enough capacity. And, total imports on trade were up 1.4%

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 23, 2015

For example, the Panama Canal has already restricted the size of ships permitted to pass through it due to drought conditions created by El Niño. Special attention should be paid to products that you source from one supplier with no redundancy—and their related revenue streams.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 8, 2024

Inevitably, these will interrupt production, increase sourcing costs, and cut into corporate revenue.”[1] ”[3] Too few companies map their supply chains all the way to where their raw materials are sourced. Most recently, drought conditions in Panama limited the flow of ships through the Panama Canal.

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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. Of course, those companies that have already taken a deep dive into supply chains risks such as sole-source dependencies will be in a better position to adapt. In the spotlight for 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. That is in the light of expected excess shipping vessel capacity available in 2024.

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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. Various industry procurement, product management and operations teams will likely be monitoring the effects of all of these significant storms in the days and weeks to come.

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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

JUNE 6, 2023

But shipping industry sources now indicate that negotiations deteriorated last week over the scope of expected dockworker wage increases. Business media reports had indicated in early May that progress was made on issues related to health benefits and other items including areas of automation, with a labor agreement in view for this month.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 7, 2025

BlackRocks $22 Billion Deal for Panama Canal and Other Global Wide Terminal Operations A consortium of investors, led by private equity firm Black Rock , the firms newly acquired arm Global Infrastructure Partners , and Geneva based Terminal Investment have agreed to acquire a reported 90 percent interest in Panama Ports for a reported $22.8

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