3PL Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Many workers and businesses, including trucking firms, railroad companies and port terminal operators, contract with Hanjin to transport and deliver cargo containers, and now they are in serious danger of not getting paid. In addition, the recent expansion of the Panama Canal has led companies to build larger, newer ships.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Identify Alternative Transportation Routes. 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. Here are the key strategic efforts that resilient supply chain practitioners take to ensure they stay in front of risk.

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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

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.

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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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CH Robinson Transportfolio

DECEMBER 19, 2016

It’s been a big year for the transportation industry. From the Panama Canal opening to a record year in ecommerce, the happenings of 2016 have kept everyone on their toes. They continue to span beyond an organization’s transportation professionals. The Panama Canal is a prime example of a global vision being realized.

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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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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

JUNE 6, 2023

The most significant news in global transportation and logistics circles late last week and this week are U.S. A further backdrop has been the billions of windfall profits that global shipping lines benefitted from during the pandemic induced global transportation disruptions of 2020 through 2022.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 14, 2019

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. Ocean shipping volumes into the East Coast have remained somewhat steady this year, due in part by the Panama Canal’s weight restrictions. Procure enough capacity.

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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. All rights reserved.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Further reported was that supplier delivery performance levels deteriorated for the first time attributed to trucking and transportation delays. Transit to and from the Panama Canal further remains constrained by lower basin water levels brought about by climate drought conditions. up 2 percentage points from the 47.1

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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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