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What is Inventory Planning and why should SMBs be doing it?

StockTrim

This includes all modes of shipping via ocean, air, truck and rail (even couriers). Added to that is the recent turmoil in the Ukraine with Russia and Belarus being the agitators. The transportation world is off its axis right now, largely due to the Covid Virus. It's making manual inventory planning extremely difficult.

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Insurers End War-Risk Cover for Shipping Across Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

Supply Chain Brain

At least 12 of the 13 Protection and Indemnity (P&I) clubs — which cover 90% of the world’s ocean-going ships, including those from the U.K. and the U.S. said they would no longer be able to provide coverage.

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Petrochemical demand is up and prices are spiking

Resilinc

This period of high prices and margins coincided with—and was partly supported by—supply chain disruptions, including the February 2021 deep freeze on the Texas Gulf Coast and port and shipping congestion in much of the world. Russia and Belarus are large [natural gas] producers, and uncertainty about sanctions has reduced their exports.

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Wine and Spirits Logistics

Consumer Goods Logistics

According to Alcohol.com, it’s Belarus, followed by Lithuania, Grenada and the Czech Republic. We’re not sure, but this year Kane Logistics will ship about 26 million cases of wine & spirits for its customers, building on our 30-year strategic focus on wine and spirits logistics. Drumroll, please….

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

However, emptying the contents of silos into the holds of ships is only one small part of the problem. As part of the export deal , Vladimir Putin’s forces must maintain a truce with Ukraine in the vicinity of the ports to allow ships to arrive and depart and be guided through mined waters by Ukrainian pilots.

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Startup Via.Delivery Brings BOPIS to SMBs in the U.S.

Multichannel Merchant

Via.Delivery has a total of 64,000 pickup locations, operating in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Canada and the U.S. And it’s cheaper to ship to those locations vs. to home, by 20% to 30%, and sellers can offer customers shipping discounts.”

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Beijing-Hamburg freight service completes maiden journey

Global Trade Management

We have demonstrated that we can transport goods by rail between China and Germany safely, reliably and yet twice as fast as compared with ships," Bensel said. "At The "Container Express" made its way from China to Germany through Mongolia, Russia, Belarus and Poland.