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How Predictive Analytics Could Solve the Global Container Crunch
Shippers around the world are scrambling to keep up with surging freight costs, and the logistics organizations that support them are being challenged in unforeseen ways.
A cargo ship is docked off the coast of North Jakarta, Indonesia. Photo: Tom Fisk/ Pexels.
Watch: Is American Manufacturing Due for a Resurgence?
Shay Scott, executive director of the Global Supply Chain Institute, and professor in the University of Tennessee’s Master of Science in Supply Chain Management online program, weighs the factors that might influence American manufacturers to reshore production from Asia to the U.S.
Is American Manufacturing Due for a Resurgence?
Global Port Gridlock Threatens Economies Everywhere
Global ports are growing more gridlocked as the pandemic era’s supply shocks intensify, threatening to spoil the holiday shopping season, erode corporate profits and drive up consumer prices.
Container ships moored off the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports in Long Beach, California. Photo: Bloomberg.
China's Golden Week Adds to Global Shipping Delays
China’s week-long holiday has exacerbated congestion at two of the country’s busiest ports — Shanghai and Ningbo — where hundreds of cargo ships are waiting to berth.
An aerial view of the Port of Shanghai in Shanghai, China. Photo: Getty Images.
Investors Fret Supply Chain Woes Could Knock Earnings
Reopening demand and marooned containers are prompting downgrades across analysts estimates for the upcoming earnings season.
A financial analyst at work. Photo: Bloomberg.
Boeing to Unveil Air Freighter in Response to E-Commerce Surge
The unveiling of Boeing’s first new jet in four years will intensify a fight with Airbus for supremacy in the flourishing cargo segment of aviation.
A Boeing Co. 777X airplane lands at the Boeing Field in Seattle. Photo: Bloomberg.
Christmas at Risk as Supply Chain ‘Disaster’ Only Gets Worse
It’s the beginning of October, just the start of what the retail world simply calls “peak.” But the industry is already in various forms of panic that usually don’t take hold until the weeks before Christmas.
Labor shortages have stalled trucking across the U.S. Photo: Bloomberg.
Thailand to Start Shipping Line to Boost Status as Logistics Hub
Trade-reliant Thailand plans to launch a national shipping company next year to bolster its trade capabilities, reduce transport costs and become a bigger player in global logistics as the Malacca bypass opens.
0924 Straitof Malacca
Shippers Are Investing in Tech, Nearshoring to Bounce Back From Covid
Stuck in a loop of fluctuating demand, capacity problems and ongoing disruptions, shippers and third-party logistics providers say they’re investing in technology that connects people, processes and information to navigate supply chain challenges, according to a new study.
An LNG-powered container ship operated by CMA CGM SA is docked at the Port of Singapore. Photo: Bloomberg.
Storms From Texas to China Set to Worsen Global Ship Snarls
Global supply chains already tangled by the pandemic, labor shortages and sustained consumer demand in the U.S. are getting walloped by Mother Nature.
Photo: Bloomberg
The World’s Carriers Are Earning the Most Money Since 2008
The global shipping industry is getting its biggest payday since 2008 as the combination of booming demand for goods and a global supply chain that’s collapsing under the weight of COVID-19 drives freight prices ever higher.
A dockworker monitors a shipping container being loaded onto a freight train at Behala inland port in Berlin, Germany. Photo: Bloomberg.
How One Covid Case Upended Toyota’s Just-in-Time Supply Chain
The snarls that finally toppled one of the world’s best-maintained supply chains have sparked deeper questions about whether the auto industry’s strategies to prioritize efficiency and maintain minimal inventory will endure in the post-pandemic world.
Photo: Bloomberg
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