Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 13, 2023

Now we have labour disruptions and the Panama Canal drought, which in normal circumstances would lead to an uptick in freight rates as they adsorb effective capacity, but any significant price effect is now highly doubtful in the current market.” This survey was conducted in May among participants in the global freight forwarding community.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 31, 2024

Focus on materials critical to your highest revenue products Procurement and supply chain managers need to adopt a new mindset for building more resilient supply chains. Integrate supplier risk insights into planning and procurement strategy Neglecting supplier data and supply chain disruption data is out with the end of 2023!

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Heading into this year, the global shipping disruptions that impacted transit times related to having to avoid the Suez Canal because of Red Sea terrorist attacks, or reduced water levels in the Panama Canal requiring reduced transit slots were generally mitigated.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As we have noted in this thread of updates, to a further extent, shipments from Asia eastward that traverse the Panama Canal are an important added backdrop to ocean transport disruption impacts. In parallel is the assessing of the related restricted ship transit volumes surrounding the Panama Canal because of low water levels.

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Freightos

JANUARY 3, 2024

More Resources Home Red Sea and Suez Canal Shipping Crisis Update Judah Levine Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Even with an international naval force in place, Houthi attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea continue. The number of impacted Asia – N.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Judah Levine November 15, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 6% to $1,711/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) climbed 3% to $2,421/FEU.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

I was in Houston yesterday evening, speaking to a large group of procurement executives at a roundtable held by KPMG’s Procurement Advisory Group, at the fabulous Brennan’s restaurant on Smith Street. There was also a discussion about the challenges of accessing good data necessary for driving SRM initiatives forward.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Judah Levine December 28, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 7% to $1,659/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) were level at $2,505/FEU.

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ThroughPut

MAY 9, 2024

Businesses can no longer afford to function based on a linear “push” model – where they procure raw materials, produce goods, and go to market with what they have, whenever they have it. You can minimize costs across the supply chain (procurement, production, and distribution).

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Freightos

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Judah Levine December 13, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) fell 1% to $1,603/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) climbed 5% to $2,497/FEU.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Judah Levine December 6, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) were level at $1,620/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) were also level at $2,367/FEU.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In the short term, drought-conditions that continue in the waters surrounding the Panama Canal continue to face long waits for traversing, or potential detours. Some carriers who invested prior windfall profits in other non-freight and global logistics related areas may have a buffer in costs and potential offsetting revenues.

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The widening of the Panama Canal to enable larger ships to pass through the trade artery will generate this traffic. As an alternative to stockpiling locally, decision makers in the public and private sectors should consider a pooled procurement process, says Goentzel.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Judah Levine February 13, 2024 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 11% to $4,859/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) climbed 3% to $6,589/FEU.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Judah Levine November 28, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 3% to $1,613/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) fell 1% to $2,362/FEU.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

DECEMBER 19, 2016

From the Panama Canal opening to a record year in ecommerce, the happenings of 2016 have kept everyone on their toes. The Panama Canal is a prime example of a global vision being realized. With the rise of autonomous vehicles and global procurement, 2017 is gearing up to be another big year for the transportation industry.

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Precoro

MARCH 22, 2023

Let's look at some specific steps that procurement leaders can take to minimize the possible financial impact of supply chain disruption. Invest in sophisticated procurement systems , automation, and AI to capture data that maximizes the end-to-end visibility of capacity, demand, finances, inventory, and supply.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 23, 2015

For example, the Panama Canal has already restricted the size of ships permitted to pass through it due to drought conditions created by El Niño. Care should be taken to understand each node in your supply chain—rail lines, ports, choke points, distribution centers—and identify potential risks associated with each.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 5, 2014

For example, the widening of the Panama Canal will change the conditions here in North Carolina, as enormous container ships will be circumnavigating the globe. And in Panama a huge transshipment area will grow where they will will do break bulk, put cargo onto smaller ships and send to North America.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 8, 2016

Panama Canal Expansion. The Panama Canal expansion, slated for completion this spring, will impact logistics in a big way. You can read more on the topic in our recent white paper, Wide Open: How the Panama Canal Expansion Is Redrawing the Logistics Map , which was written collaboratively with Boston Consulting Group.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

As 2024 begins, two of the world’s most critical ocean transit corridors, the Suez Canal , and the Panama Canal are facing threats of shipping disruption as global geopolitical tensions and terrorist threats escalate. Truck and rail transportation movements across the Mexico and U.S.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Leading Practices in Transportation Procurement (2,166 views). The Panama Canal Expansion: The Impact on Logistics Strategies and Operations (2,057 views). Market Fluctuations in the Oil and Gas Industry: A Catalyst for Supply Chain Improvement (2,327 views). What Are Other Shippers Doing?

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3PL Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

However, Nerijus Poskus, director of pricing and procurement for the freight forwarder and customs broker Flexport, predicts that this spike won’t last longer than one or two months. In addition, the recent expansion of the Panama Canal has led companies to build larger, newer ships. But now, hundreds of these ships sit empty and idle.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 10, 2023

As the BBC noted in its reporting last week : “ Small states like the Marshall Islands, Liberia and Panama have huge numbers of ships sailing under their national flags but they have no real responsibility for these vessels.”

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 14, 2019

gulf region due to Panama Canal restrictions. In fact, there were some instances where vessels had to unload cargo in Panama to get through the canal. Ocean shipping volumes into the East Coast have remained somewhat steady this year, due in part by the Panama Canal’s weight restrictions. Procure enough capacity.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Related Concern The related concern is the ongoing drought conditions in the areas surrounding the Panama Canal which for weeks have restricted the volume of vessels that can transit this canal because of the low water levels in the staging basin area. container traffic travels through the Panama Canal every year.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Judah Levine December 19, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) fell 3% to $1,556/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) were level at $2,509/FEU.

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Freightos

JANUARY 24, 2024

Judah Levine January 24, 2024 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 15% to $2,966/FEU.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

A new consideration to such shifts is a current development related to ongoing concerns toward increased lowered water levels in the approaches to the Panama Canal. Various industry procurement, product management and operations teams will likely be monitoring the effects of all of these significant storms in the days and weeks to come.

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Resilinc

JULY 19, 2022

At the same time, street blockades and trucker strikes are exacerbating those desabastecimientos in population centers such as Panama City. They are also disrupting global supply chains. Protests in response to inflation and shortages of food and fuel are occurring on every continent.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

Inventory management and cost control remains paramount including mitigating the risks of added disruptions in global wide ocean transport brought about by the Red Sea and associated Suez Canal diversions as well as Panama Canal transit time increases. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 6, 2023

That should have been a good contingency plan albeit the new consequences of severe drought occurring in South America which has impacted the water levels of the Panama Canal resulting in increasingly slower transit times. East Coast Ports during the negotiation period.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Transit to and from the Panama Canal further remains constrained by lower basin water levels brought about by climate drought conditions. Various ocean container and bulk shipping vessels remain compelled to bypass this transit point to and from the Suez Canal , and to route instead around Africa to reach European and other major ports.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 5, 2024

Business media has further reinforced that at same time, the Panama Canal , which is the globe’s other key transit route, continues to deal with restraining daily transit levels because of low water levels brought about by severe drought. That is in the light of expected excess shipping vessel capacity available in 2024.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

Business media has further reinforced that at same time, the Panama Canal , which is the globe’s other key transit route. Is the context being applied to the Red Sea disruption, or to the broader and ongoing combined Red Sea and Panama Canal related disruptions? That has since led to rebels targeting U.S.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 14, 2016

Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) are designed to boost economic growth through trade by opening markets by way of progressive removal of customs duties, eliminating or reducing trade barriers and tariffs, lifting restrictions on services and even through public procurement. Netherlands Antilles.

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