Freightos

JULY 23, 2024

Air rates – Freightos Air Index China – N. China – N. In air cargo, B2C e-commerce demand is expected to keep ex-China volumes and rates elevated through what is normally slow season and into Q4’s peak season. Freightos Air Index rates out of China dipped slightly to $5.34/kg Europe – N.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 25, 2024

In a March 2010 article in The Atlantic titled “Cyber Warriors,” James Fallows writes,”[Cyber] attacks — not just from China but from Russia and elsewhere — on America’s electronic networks cost millions of dollars and could in the extreme cause the collapse of financial life, the halt of most manufacturing systems, and the (..)

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Air rates – Freightos Air index China – N. China – N. Europe prices (FBX11 Weekly) fell 8% to $1,608/FEU. Asia-Mediterranean prices (FBX13 Weekly) fell 14% to $2,003/FEU. America weekly prices increased 4% to $4.78/kg. Europe weekly prices increased 1% to $3.07/kg. Europe – N. kg since early August.

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Freightos

JULY 30, 2024

Air rates – Freightos Air Index China – N. China – N. Europe prices (FBX11 Weekly) fell 1% to $8,369/FEU. Asia-Mediterranean prices (FBX13 Weekly) climbed 4% to $7,796/FEU. America weekly prices decreased 2% to $5.22/kg. Europe weekly prices stayed level at $3.39/kg. Europe – N.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The increasing issues with tax and tariff shifts and the policies of China make the response more complicated. Rolling Electrical Outages in China. The issues with China refusing Australian coal and the dependency of China on coal for electricity for 65% of electrical supply. Government policies are rational.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

US Official Says China is Oversupplying Lithium to Eliminate Rivals A senior U.S. Fernandez, visiting Portugal, claimed that China is overproducing lithium in response to U.S. Trade tensions between China and the EU are escalating as both sides impose measures to protect their industries.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The increasing issues with tax and tariff shifts and the policies of China make the response more complicated. Rolling Electrical Outages in China. The issues with China refusing Australian coal and the dependency of China on coal for electricity for 65% of electrical supply. Government policies are rational.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2024

This last week, FedEx furthered its commitment to the giant panada conversation, FedEx has completed its first-ever round trip transportation of six pandas between the US and China via two separate flights. China panda exchanges, which began in 1972. This move continues the tradition of U.S.-China

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 22, 2024

This act is in response to the People’s Republic of China arbitrarily detaining more than one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Surprisingly, most of the goods seized did not originate in China but rather in Malaysia and Vietnam.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Usually, the package came from China and had something else listed as the contents on the outside. Over the last few months, I’ve seen stories about people receiving random, unidentified seeds in the mail. However, once it was opened, there were just seeds with no description.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Teradyne , a supplier of semiconductor testing equipment, pulled manufacturing worth about $1 billion out of China last year, a Teradyne spokesperson said on Monday, after U.S. technology from helping China’s military. The most recent awards were the second round of funding, worth roughly $2 billion.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2023

I also looked at changes in exports by the US, Europe, and China. The major takeaway is that there is little insight gained from this additional breakdown, except for maybe a more recent slowdown and amplified return to growth from China exports. However, China and the US were among the 8 countries where output increased.

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Freightos

APRIL 25, 2024

This strategic move has not only circumvented significant costs but also dramatically increased air cargo demand from China, particularly from hubs in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, impacting traditional logistics and shipping frameworks. From Q3 2021 to early 2022, Freightos Air Index China-U.S. These rates dipped to around $3.50/kg

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 21, 2023

It’s one of those Fridays, where I’m running short on time, so I’ll just jump straight to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Welcome to the Carbon Tax Trade Wars Remember the China-US trade war that began in 2018, where the US imposed tariffs on more than $300 billion.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

It carries forward Alibaba’s mission of making it easy to do business anywhere by aiming to deliver anywhere in China within 24 hours, and across the globe within 72 hours. The growth in e-commerce has accelerated faster than expected, and we are looking to see another record day for 11.11 sales as more consumers are buying more online.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In other Walmart news, the company is importing more goods to the United States from India and reducing its reliance upon China as it looks to cut costs and diversify its supply chain. The data shows that only 60 percent of its shipments came from China during the same period, down from 80 percent in 2018.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Then comes this story from China, as reported by The Daily Mail, about “a flock of sheep [that] has been caught walking round. “We need to know what is going on with sheep.” So wrote the 9-year old daughter of former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai in her notebook, according to a tweet posted by Pai.

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Freightos

AUGUST 6, 2024

Air rates – Freightos Air Index China – N. China – N. Some importers pulled forward shipments of goods from China facing tariff increases meant for August 1st. In air cargo, Freightos Air Index rates from China to the US slid 12% in the last few weeks. America weekly prices decreased 6% to $4.9/kg.

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Air rates – Freightos Air Index China – N. kg China – N. Europe prices (FBX11 Weekly) fell 34% to $996/FEU. Asia-Mediterranean prices (FBX13 Weekly) fell 4% to $1,751/FEU. America weekly prices increased 4% to $4.41/kg Europe weekly prices increased 7% to $3.70/kg. Europe – N.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2022

While conditions have eased in North America, port congestion has gotten much worse in China. China accounts for about 12% of global trade. China’s stringent COVID lockdown in critical port cities has impacted global supply chains. At the end of April, over 500 ships were awaiting berthing space at Chinese docks.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Avenues of transport are declining as major cargo airlines, like Cathay Pacific , drastically reduce flights to mainland China and Hong Kong. L ogistics providers like Maersk are forced to announce blank sailings due to curtailed demand. The resilienc e of supply chain plan ning is being called into question. – Tweet this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 21, 2023

raises $20M as it scales robot deliveries How friendshoring is impacting trade with China and the Far East Seagate to pay $300m settlement for violation of US export control laws Walmart is debuting the first North American 15-liter compressed natural gas engine, which is set to be incorporated into its private fleet.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 4, 2023

Large companies in China are adopting warehouse automation at an increasing rate due to the limited supply of companies that are able to provide advanced fulfillment capabilities. For example, there is a limited supply of logistics service providers with the desired capabilities in China, compared with a rapidly growing e-commerce market.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Import activity for aluminum cans has also drastically picked up in the last few months, however prevailing power curtailments in Europe and China continue to remain a bottleneck for a steady supply of cans from the international market into the US. What’s Next?

Packaging 262

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

Relocating production from China. China trade war is causing what has been described as the biggest cross-border supply chain shift since China joined the WTO in 2001. The ABC (Anywhere But China) phenomenon has companies relocating or stepping up plans to relocate their manufacturing outside China.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

When it comes to factors like access to labor, it becomes an improbable task to reproduce a labor market the size of say China or India. For example, China and the United States are ranked 1 and 2 respectively for the production of rare earth elements, but this is deceiving as China is producing 5 times the amount of the United States.

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Freightos

JUNE 6, 2023

In mid-2022 logistics costs began to recede, dropping almost 90% from May to December according to the Freightos Baltic Index’s China – East Coast (FBX03) and China to West Coast (FBX01). One challenge appears to have been replaced with another.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 27, 2023

” China, which once touted a one-child policy, now recognizes the ill effects of a declining population. … Over the next few years, China will be losing 70 million (of its) workforce … so this is a big shock to the global supply chain.”[7] If those effects are not mitigated, the world will feel the pain.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

Deaths in Hong Kong are at a record level as COVID outbreaks slow freight at Shenzhen and Qingdao ports in China. The rise in COVID in China and war injuries will strip the world of medical/surgical supplies. As the price for ocean freight increased in 2021, more and more goods moved from China to Europe by rail through Russia.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 30, 2022

China is the largest market for EVs and accounted for 7.5 According to China Passenger Car Association (CPCA), vehicle production at the Tesla Giga Shanghai plant exceeded 322,000 units (up 66 percent year-over-year) during the first seven months of 2022. According to IEA data, around 16.5 percent from 2018. accounted for 2.5

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

China-US container shipping rates sail past $20,000 to record. Container shipping rates from China to the US have scaled fresh highs above $20,000 per 40-foot box as rising retailer orders ahead of the peak US shopping season add strain to global supply chains. The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Companies are now combining this decentralization of production from China and Asia to Europe and the US to include CO2 emission reduction objectives. He also is a guest lecturer at Tsinghua University in China and NTU and SMU in Singapore.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2022

As an example, a major retailer whose market presence is in the Americas realized that several of their shipments that originate in China pass through Russia to make their way to the west and are now subject to shipment backlogs. Some may have believed themselves to be immune at one point, but now their perspective is shifting.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

But SHIFEX, the freight forwarder rate index, recently recorded the lowest ocean freight rate between China and the port of Long Beach in 24 months —a rate of $3,500 to move a 40-foot container. Economists are beginning to speak of “immaculate disinflation.” This is an 80% drop year on year drop.

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SCM Research

MARCH 15, 2024

by 2060, with the most severe impacts felt in developing countries and major manufacturing nations such as China and the United States. By integrating climate science, epidemiology, and economic modeling, the study predicts a substantial increase in annual global GDP losses, potentially reaching up to 4.6%

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Most recently, the recent disruptions in the Red Sea that saw ocean freight rates from China to Europe by over 190% and saw transit times lengthen, sea-air services offered a strategic advantage for logistics professionals able to remain agile, by watching trends and jumping at opportunities to ensure a resilient supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 3, 2024

Industry Association Events (in chronological order) Event Name Date Location NRF ‘24 (Supply Chain 360) January 14 – 16 New York, NY Logistics & Automation January 24 – 25 Bern, Switzerland SMART LOGISTICS Expo January 24 – 26 Tokyo, Japan Manifest February 5 – 7 Las Vegas, NV ARC Industry Leadership Forum February 5 – 8 Orlando, FL RILA (..)

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