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Conquering the high seas: What’s shaking the global liner shipping industry?

DELMIA Quintiq

Massive ships. While container terminal operators certainly feel the pressure, freight forwarders and the shipping lines themselves have a few planning puzzles to sort out on their own. Capacity of container ships handled in 2014. Shipping lines alliances. Slow steaming. Alliances and consolidation. Mass consolidation.

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Industry Transformation: Advanced Manufacturing and Digitalisation of Supply Chain-Logistics

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

International Airports and Ports almost came to a standstill as the worlds international airline fleets were grounded and maritime shipping disrupted and stalled. SHIPPING ,TRADE CONNECTIVITY AND SUPPLY CHAIN DIGITALISATION. TRANSFORMATION OF SUPPLY CHAIN & LOGISTICS VIA DIGITALISATION.

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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. As some component lead times push into 2023, the shortage is expected to last 24 months before it recedes – similar to the chip shortage of 2008-2009. Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues.

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Who said supply chains are boring?: Shipping my stuff one more time.

Supply Chains Rock

Thursday, February 05, 2009. Shipping my stuff one more time. After failing to ship my Mini Cooper over two years ago Im at it again, but this time with much lighter cargo. Without supply chains consumers would be stuck using products that they had to make or grow with their own two hands. Subscribe To.

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Managing End-to-End Supply Chain Security Like A Pro

Supply Chain Opz

To get quick overview of some existing security programs, Ive gathered more information for the article called " Security Program as Part of Efficient Supply Chain Management " by Hintsa and Hameri 2009 as below, 1) C-TPAT Program: a program initiated by U.S. 2) FAST Program : Free and Secure Trade is also a program initiated by U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Air cargo firms feel the pressure from plunge in freight prices (Reuters). Global trade volumes fell for the first time since 2009 by 1.7 When an order comes in, the bots will drive themselves to collect their cargo, store it in their holds (which can take about two shopping bags’ worth of stuff), then trundle on to their destinations.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 8-12, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Future of brokerage: Cargo Chief to bet on pay for time ( Overdrive ). Back in June 2009, I wrote the following in a post titled Amazon.com: A Customer-Centric 3PL : “You won’t find Amazon.com on any ‘Top 25 3PLs’ list, but the company is a leading 3PL in my book.” Amazon expands logistics reach in China ( Reuters ).