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Ocean Freight: Key Trends & Planning For Peak Season 2023

Ware2Go

In this article: Ocean Freight: Key Stats & Industry News Ocean Freight Shipping: What to Watch For In 2023 Freight Shipping From China & Alternatives What Are The Current Ocean Freight Rates? The World Trade Organization estimates 43 billion tons of goods are shipped each year—due in part to the rising trend of eCommerce.

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The Post-Pandemic Supply Chain with Peter Tirschwell

The Logistics of Logistics

In his role Peter leads The Journal of Commerce, the historic New York City maritime newspaper founded in 1827, today a team of specialized business journalists focused on the end-to-end international shipping supply chain including shipping, ports, airfreight, trucking, rail and home delivery, addressed to the needs of shippers.

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Restructuring Global Value Chains & Tariff Reduction – A Continuous Evolution for Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

are reporting that they are being inundated with requests from importers seeking to use provisions such as the “321 de minimis” rule, which allows goods worth less than $800 to be shipped to the U.S. Firms could store products that attract tariffs in bonded warehouses until they are required. without being subject to tariffs.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Dealing with the Shipping Container Crisis. Following a March 2022 surge of Covid-19 in Shanghai, shipping company A.P. Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Famous Pacific Shipping Group ). IDC via IEEE Spectrum). Deloitte Global).

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From Taiwan to the U.S.—Duty-free

3PL Insights

About half of the 132 containers filled with tires, were en route from Taiwan, headed to the East and West coast ports. “We We needed to find a Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) warehouse, quickly.”. Upon arrival at the warehouse, the containers were unloaded, inspected for damage, and inventoried by SKU and documentation.

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Top 3 Challenges Facing High-Tech and Semiconductor Supply Chains

Resilinc

They are asking questions like ‘Do our facilities teams know what piping it’s included in?’ The second is tensions around export controls with China and Taiwan , which leave many companies reevaluating their global sourcing strategies. They’re trying to figure out how to find alternate suppliers out of that area.

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

Supply Chain Shaman

The proliferation of products and capabilities is exponential with over 60% of capacity in Taiwan. For example, when I used to ship ice cream by reefer container to China from the west coast, the time on the ship was 12-18 days. In addition, the warehouses are full and containers are being used for overflow storage.