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Panama Canal Drought: Lower Water Levels, Higher Supply Chain Risk

Resilinc

What’s happening in the Panama Canal 2023? The Panama Canal, a crucial 50-mile waterway that six percent of all global trade passes through, faced major traffic jams this month due to a historic drought. How long will the Panama Canal drought last? Which countries are impacted by the Panama Canal drought?

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Trends 2024: Risk Management

Enterra Insights

Journalist Andrew Freedman explains, “Geopolitical risks in the Red Sea and extreme weather in Central America are converging, jostling global supply chains fed by the Suez and Panama Canals.”[5] … In Panama, the drought is tied partly to the El Niño climate cycle, along with long-term, human-caused climate change.

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The Panama Canal Expansion: Time Versus Cost Trade-Off

CH Robinson Transportfolio

The Panama Canal expands in 2016, allowing for more and larger (post-Panamax) ships to make the passage from East Asia to the United States. Our paper looked at the question of how much traffic the expanded Panama Canal would divert to East Coast ports from a number of angles. In 2015, the Boston Consulting Group and C.H.

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

Those goods flowed through three regional hubs – in Singapore, Panama City, Panama and Stabio, Switzerland – to 49 distribution centers, 24 of which VF operates. China, for example, only produces 14% of their total units, only 3% of those units end up being exported to the United States and 2% to EMEA.

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What to Do Now Before the Panama Canal Expands

CH Robinson Transportfolio

The Panama Canal expands in 2016. Shippers in Columbus, OH, will be in the battleground region of the United States, with ports on the East and West Coasts vying for their business. Shippers in Columbus, OH, will be in the battleground region of the United States, with ports on the East and West Coasts vying for their business.

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Logistics Technology Q2 2017 Roundup

Freightos

During the second half of June, Amazon and Alibaba both held conferences in the United States, appealing to small and midsize businesses selling on their platform. Meanwhile, US import changes from the expanded Panama Canal will gradually shift some 10% of West Coast imports to the East Coast. . . Logistics Technology Trends.

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Are Sea Ports Ready For Future Freight?

NFI Industries

More than over $6 billion dollars’ worth of freight moves through the sea ports in the United States every day 1. The Panama Canal expansion has ignited many sea ports to update their infrastructure to accommodate an expected increase in freight volumes. READ MORE.

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