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Port of Baltimore calamity shows supply chain’s vulnerabilities

1 April 2024

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Companies continue to make their supply chains more resilient to respond very quickly to supply chain disruptions. Some disruptions can be modeled or even predicted in some cases. But others are hard to predict and show that even with all the technology and process improvements in the world, supply chains remain vulnerable.

We’ve seen this over...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/port-of-baltimore-calamity-shows-supply-chains-vulnerabilities

European ports speak out on Red Sea conflict

18 January 2024

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Following the serious attacks on ships, mainly – but not only – container ships, in the Red Sea by the Houthi movement, shipping lines decided to redirect their ships …

https://maritime-professionals.com/european-ports-speak-out-on-red-sea-conflict/

Assessing Red Sea’s impact on Rotterdam

10 January 2024

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The recent disruptions at the Red Sea entrance are anticipated to exert additional strain on the container terminals in January 2024. However, the overall impact on the port of …

https://maritime-professionals.com/assessing-red-seas-impact-on-rotterdam/

Daily Infographic: The worst rail disasters in freight history

1 March 2023

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Gartner expert: Supply chains can thrive even amid disruption

7 June 2022

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. Relationships. Trust. Control. And visibility.

These are the hallmarks of a strategy to managing and surviving supply chain risk, said Brian Whitlock, senior director analyst at Gartner. Speaking at the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/XPO 2022 on Monday at Walt Disney World’s Dolphin Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Whitlock cited those four items as the call to action during his presentation, titled Logistics Risk and Disruption: Is it in the Past or Forever Part of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/gartner-expert-supply-chains-can-thrive-even-amid-disruption

Turning supply chain chaos into profitable business

7 June 2022

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. —Manufacturers have generally weathered the past two years of disruption and now are shifting into future-proofing their businesses, incorporating better visibility and supply chain control.

That is one of the takeaways from Fictiv’s seventh annual State of Manufacturing report. Released Monday at the Gartner Supply Chain Sumposium/XPO at Walt Disney World’s Dolphin Resort, the report found a majority (59%) of companies said improving supply chain visibility is their top...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/turning-supply-chain-chaos-into-profitable-business

FOSC chat: Amazon Freight on supply chain disruptions

10 May 2022

Amazon Freight experts sit on the FreightWaves stage during The Future of Supply Chain event.

This fireside chat recap is from Day 1 of FreightWaves’ The Future of Supply Chain live event in Rogers, Arkansas. For more information and content from the event, click here.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Dealing with supply chain disruptions.

DETAILS: Antonio Garcia, senior manager of SMB sales at Amazon Freight, and Hannah McClellan discussed the volatility of the freight market in the past couple of years.

SPEAKER: McClellan is the vice president at Amazon Freight.

BIO: McClellan leads Amazon’s...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fosc-chat-amazon-freight-on-supply-chain-disruptions

As Ningbo slowly recovers, Covid ripples reach ports of Tianjin and Shenzhen

11 January 2022

The port of Ningbo has largely recovered from its latest Covid disruption, but the risk of shipping delays from China has already spread to Tianjin and Shenzhen.
In an update yesterday, Maersk said: “Container gate operations have been recovered completely at Ningbo.” However, forwarders have reported severe disruption to landside operations, which are taking longer to recover.
Maersk said trucking had recovered to 75% of normal capacity, with some services remaining suspended in …

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https://theloadstar.com/as-ningbo-slowly-recovers-covid-ripples-reach-ports-of-tianjin-and-shenzhen/

Ningbo shippers divert as exports are hit by Covid-restricted trucking

5 January 2022

Forwarders are shifting volumes to congested-Shanghai to avoid landside delays, despite carrier schedules so far unaffected by the newest Covid-disruption at Ningbo.
Ningbo-Zhoushan Port has repeatedly fallen victim to China’s tough Covid restrictions over the past six months, with the latest lockdown taking place in Ningbo’s Beilun district, which borders three of the port’s container terminals.
Container loading and discharge is operating normally, but the impact on trucking and access to the...

https://theloadstar.com/ningbo-shippers-divert-as-exports-are-hit-by-covid-restricted-trucking/

Race against time for importers as links from Vancouver are re-established

26 November 2021

Waterborne Canadian imports from Asia remain under pressure. Traffic links between the port of Vancouver and the Canadian interior are gradually being restored after they were severed by severe flooding, but the situation remains tenuous and a full recovery of cargo flows is still a long way off.
It could get even worse if container truckers serving the port were to move ahead with a threat of industrial action.
Work is progressing …

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https://theloadstar.com/race-against-time-for-importers-as-links-from-vancouver-are-re-established/

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