Supply Chain Week in Review May 8th – May 14th
Port automation is hot-button issue in West Coast labor talks Some preview of the likely positions to be taken during contract negotiations between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union...
Supply Chain Week in Review May 1st – May 7th
SONAR charts check temperature of Shanghai’s ailing supply chain No matter how “open” the Chinese government has said Shanghai is, the flow of trade is telling otherwise. The reality is quite...
Supply Chain Week in Review April 24th – April 30th
Rising ocean shipping costs to bring wave of higher prices Research from the International Monetary Fund substantiates the correlation between “volatile” global shipping costs and inflation. Read...
Supply Chain Week in Review April 17th – April 23rd
Shanghai lockdown is not causing global supply chain chaos (yet) First came China’s Wuhan lockdown in February 2020. Then came the closing of Yantian in Shenzhen, the world’s fourth-largest port, in...
Earth Day: 5 ways to reduce your supply chains carbon footprint
Driving business growth and reducing overhead costs remain the top priorities of any business. Many business owners fail to connect these two functions to logistics sustainability. Usually,...
Supply Chain Week in Review April 10th – April 16th
Get ready for the next supply chain shockwave Concern is growing that the spread of COVID cases and city lockdowns in China will have massive downstream effects for global supply chains that could...
Supply Chain Week in Review April 3rd – April 9th
Container shipping at the crossroads: The big unwind or party on? Is faltering consumer demand curbing imports, allowing port congestion to finally ease, releasing container-ship capacity and...
Supply Chain Week in Review March 27th – April 2nd
Ports begin charging diesel-powered polluters to build Clean Truck Fund The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Friday began charging diesel-powered drayage trucks $10 per unit entering and...
Freightgate named Inbound Logistics Top 100 Logistics IT Providers
Inbound Logistics has named Freightgate, Inc. a Top 100 Logistics IT provider for 2022. Freightgate offers a SaaS TMS solution that helps shippers, carriers and 3PLs optimize global supply chains...
Supply Chain Week in Review March 20th – March 26th
War dims global business outlook as inflation plight worsens Factories from Australia to Europe are seeing already surging costs jump further as Russia’s war in Ukraine and the barrage of sanctions...
Supply Chain Week in Review March 13th – March 19th
East Coast ports about to get slammed by a lot more ships There were 63 container ships waiting off East and Gulf Coast ports on Friday morning, plus another eight off the transshipment hub in...
Supply Chain Week in Review March 6th – March 12th
2 tankers fill up with Russian oil after 45-day US countdown begins After oil companies were given a 45-day window by the Biden administration on Tuesday to phase out existing contracts for Russian...
Supply Chain Week in Review February 20th – February 26th
Diesel surges more than crude before falling back Diesel prices kicked off the trading day by rising far faster than any other petroleum prices Thursday morning in reaction to the Russian invasion...
Supply Chain Week in Review February 13th – February 19th
A resource for helping SME supply chains get to net-zero emmisions The nation’s top international ocean shipping regulator wants to investigate whether West Coast terminal operators are taking...
Supply Chain Week in Review February 6th – February 12th
FMC considering PierPass overcharge investigation The nation’s top international ocean shipping regulator wants to investigate whether West Coast terminal operators are taking advantage of supply...