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This Week in Logistics News (June 22 – 28)

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Ship backups that plagued seaports during the Covid pandemic are making a comeback, as vessel diversions because of attacks in the Red Sea trigger gridlock and soaring costs at the start of the peak shipping season. Postal Service after UPS recently won the five-year contract.

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The coronavirus supply chain

Supply Chain Movement

The media coverage of supply chain has increased exponentially as a result of the coronavirus epidemic in China, South Korea and Italy. All companies that produce and ship tangible goods are currently working hard to assess the impact of the outbreak on their own supply chains. Assessment of end-to-end supply chain visibility.

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

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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 ). Wall Street Journal ). Deloitte Global).

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Takeaways from the 2018 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference

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Direct to consumer online shop launched with fully functioning billing, payment, shipping capabilities. Manufacturers that are used to shipping pallets and cartons to retailers will need to be prepared for the world of shipping eaches to consumers and do so economically. The site was launched in eight weeks.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 12-16, 2016)

Talking Logistics

bound ship is being held ‘hostage’ (Reuters). Keeping track of warehouse inventories with an army of fully autonomous drones (TechCrunch). According to a Reuters report: As of Wednesday, of Hanjin’s 97 container ships, 36 were waiting outside of overseas ports, according to South Korea’s finance ministry.

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Top 6 Wholesale Distribution Trends for 2019

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Shipping costs are also expected to spike upwards. It raised its prowess from running mere factories to one that offered a complete value chain: from research and development to shipping and fulfillment. Drop Shipping Will Face a Decline. Hikes in tariffs and shipping rates will erase whatever profit margin they had in mind.

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This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech July 14 2022

Supply Chain Matters

battery production site for Panasonic, and completion of Series D funding round for on demand warehousing provider Flex e. The Gigafactory facility is considered one of the world’s largest lithium-ion battery factories, surpassing six billion EV battery cells shipped. We include this week’s announcement of selection of a new U.S.