Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Ongoing Panama Canal Disruption Report authors made specific mention of the ongoing Panama Canal disruption brought about by declining water basin levels brought about by months of drought.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides our latest update regarding the Red Sea Transport disruption impacting transport movements to and from European and Asian ports. 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

JANUARY 3, 2024

Concurrently, supply chain leaders will be expected to continue efforts directed at instilling added supply network resiliency and tactical based agility. border area remain disrupted because of a migrant border crossing crisis with political ramifications.

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Resilinc

MARCH 5, 2024

As temperatures continue to rise, the intersection of climate change and supply chain resilience demands increased attention from businesses worldwide. From wildfires to hurricanes, the potential for climate-related supply chain disruptions remains a significant concern for supply chains and economies globally.

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Precoro

MARCH 22, 2023

Keep reading to find out more about: What supply chain disruptions are Causes of supply chain disruptions Examples of supply chain disruptions Impact of supply chain disruption How to overcome disruptions in the supply chain What are disruptions in global supply chains?

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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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TMC

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Consider, for example, the Panama Canal puzzle. The above actions will not eliminate risk from your supply chain, but they will help you to keep disruptions to a minimum. For more information on how to minimize the impact of supply chain disruptions, download our white paper, “ Add Resilience to Supply Chains.”.

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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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Resilinc

JANUARY 31, 2024

Resilinc’s Multi-Tier Mapping solution is powered by 12 years of supplier-validated data—with 800K suppliers, one million sites, and four million parts—giving you enhanced visibility into your supply chain so you can discover hidden weaknesses, like single sources. AI Mapping: What’s the Difference?

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Journalist Ben Unglesbee reports, “Extreme weather events are the top risk facing supply chains in 2024, according to an annual outlook report from Everstream Analytics. The firm attached a risk score of 100% to the possibility of extreme weather causing supply chain disruption.”[4]

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 19, 2022

Massive supply chain disruptions are being experienced around the globe, and the causes are many and complex. Factors affecting the supply chain. When China shut down operations in a bid to contain Covid-19, supply chains ran out of material. The pandemic. Shipping challenges.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The West Coast only has so much port capacity, and the East Coast and Gulf are separated by the Panama Canal – another potential point of congestion. The Biden Administration announced in June that it was establishing a supply chain disruptions task force to address supply-demand mismatched that emerged as the economy recovered.

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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. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 10, 2023

As the BBC noted in its reporting last week : “ Small states like the Marshall Islands, Liberia and Panama have huge numbers of ships sailing under their national flags but they have no real responsibility for these vessels.”

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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. Gulf Coast or major East Coast ports. The development is resulting in building multiday backup of ships waiting to traverse the canal.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 6, 2023

That should have been a good contingency plan albeit the new consequences of severe drought occurring in South America which has impacted the water levels of the Panama Canal resulting in increasingly slower transit times. East Coast Ports during the negotiation period.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Supply Chain Matters alerts clients and readers to a potential replay of the 2021 disruption in global shipping and cascading supply chain disruption as a result of recent events. container traffic travels through the Panama Canal every year. Reportedly, forty percent of all U.S.

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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? East Coast have a Red Sea disruption context.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 15, 2024

If the attacks continue, this crisis could trigger inflation due to higher global freight and insurance rates, along with supply chain disruptions. #5 However, the trend is not expected to last due to an imbalance in supply and demand and no major sign of a revival. The disruptions primarily affect 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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Resilinc

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Another factor complicating things is the situation at the Panama Canal: the severe drought there is causing delays for shipping companies (Read more in our Special Report: Bridge the Gap – How Industries are Adapting to the Panama Canal Drought.) Resilinc recommendations: what can businesses do?

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