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Oil Tankers Turn Back in Red Sea After Houthi Attack Threat
The ships could make the voyage to China via the Suez Canal, but that would increase the voyage from about 7,000 miles to more than 17,000 miles.
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The U.S. Blockade Is Forcing Iran’s Energy Tankers to Zig-Zag and U-Turn
The U.S. restored a blockade against Iranian shipping on July 14, a step that all but halted Tehran’s crude exports when it was imposed previously.
A U.S. service member watches a ship transit the Arabian Sea. Source: U.S. Navy
Xeneta: Peak Season for Ocean Freight Started Two Months Early
A bulge in demand was caused by shippers trying to get ahead of increasing bunker fuel prices, ironically causing a spike in freight rates.
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Oil Supertankers Increasingly Bear Brunt in Hormuz Ship Attacks
The IMO’s secretary general told Bloomberg Radio that ships should continue to avoid navigating Hormuz because of the current level of navigational risk.
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How AstraZeneca Built Constraint-Based Planning With OMP
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Maintaining exceptional service levels to ensure quality patient care is critical to AstraZeneca, a biopharmaceutical company.  But for years, its exceptional service levels came at a cost for the company in the form of elevated inventory levels and planning decisions made with limited end-to-end visibility into its supply chain, which impacted agility and growth.
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Reality-based Planning in Pharma: The Key to a High-Performing Supply Chain
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Life sciences supply chains are among the most complex in the world. Every day, supply chain leaders must balance shifting demand, constrained supply, and strict regulatory requirements, all while ensuring patients get the medications they need. The margin for error is small, and disconnected, stage-by-stage planning just cannot keep up.
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Smarter, Faster Decisions: Bekaert Drives Agility with Advanced Scenario Planning
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How do you plan for a technology that doesn't exist yet, while keeping today's production lines running? That's the challenge Bekaert faced with its titanium fiber-based porous transport layers, a breakthrough component powering industrial-scale green hydrogen production
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Keystone Pipeline Operator Agrees to Pay $26.9M Penalty for 2022 Oil Spill
South Bow would also agree to pay another $40 million to guard against future oil spills, as well as $3 million to Kansas for environmental restoration projects.
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2026 Global Chemical Supply Chain (China) Summit Gathers 600+ Chemical Industry Executives
Taking place 19-20 November, 2026 in Shanghai, China.
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Podcast | How AI Is Reshaping Procurement: Hype or Reality?
A 170-year-old manufacturer is on the cutting edge of AI.
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EU to Favor European Providers in Public Service Contracts
The commission is especially worried about the dependencies European operators continue to have on Chinese suppliers, particularly in the field of chips and rare earth minerals.
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Record-High U.S. Fuel Exports Are Straining Domestic Stockpiles
Stockpiles of diesel and other fuels have dwindled to the lowest seasonal levels in years, which may test the U.S.’s capacity to continue being supplier of last resort.
A pipeline runs toward oil Southbow storage tanks at the Cushing crude oil storage terminal in Cushing, Oklahoma. Photographer: Nick Oxford/Bloomberg
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