COVID-19’s opportunity for global supply chains (with video)

Roughly a decade ago, in anticipation of changes in the supply chain and logistics sector, investment firm Saybrook Management started buying companies in that space – not so much because they were great opportunities, which they were, but because the firm wanted to understand how the various pieces of the supply chain worked.

Then came COVID-19.

“There’s nothing that compares to this from a logistics perspective,” Saybrook CEO Jonathan Rosenthal told FreightWaves technology reporter Vishnu...

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COVID-19 makes volatility the new norm for supply chains (with video)

Over the past six months, supply chain professionals have had to “dig deep” to get through what likely has been the most stressful time to work in this industry as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Jonathan Wright, managing partner and global cognitive process re-engineering lead at IBM Services.

Wright, speaking at American Shipper’s Global Trade Tech summit on Wednesday, said executives had to break through some of the orthodoxies of the past to find new ways of meeting...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/covid-19-makes-volatility-the-new-norm-for-supply-chains

Commentary: COVID-19 severely impacts the ‘Blue Economy’

The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates. 

Since the beginnings of COVID-19, the political rhetoric masking the severity and economic impact of the virus has piled up to levels we have not seen since the U.S.-China trade war. Just as the flow of trade refuted the trade war promises and winning declarations, the same can be applied to the impact and ruthlessness of C-19.

A cargo ship being unloaded at...

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More air cargo finds its sea legs during COVID-19

Escalating airfreight transportation rates and capacity shortages out of China in recent months due to the coronavirus pandemic have led many shippers to try hybrid services that combine sea and air modes.

So-called “sea-air” services offered by some global freight forwarders and non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCCs) have been around for decades, but they tend to come and go depending on airfreight market conditions.

Mortan Bach, global chief commercial officer, Shipco Trasport (Courtesy...

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