Canada Protests: Protest by Truckers in the U.S. Gain Momentum
It has been more than 14 days of protest, against pandemic measures in Ottawa, and the echoes are being heard across the border. Demonstrations continue to reverberate beyond Canadian border, with new road blockade temporarily cutting off the country’s busiest border crossing and copycat convoys spreading to New Zealand and Australia, with a third one […]
Supply Chain Labor Shortages – Coping Mechanism
We are approximately two years into the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a continuity in struggle at various levels of supply chain, due to labor shortages. Many expected the hiring situation to get better last year —but the pandemic doesn’t seem to make an exit easily. At every step disruptions occur in supply chain due to […]
Importance of Supply Chain
Why Supply Chain makes such a difference to our overall economy? In order, to compete in the global economy, businesses need to outsource and create supply chains, as per industry experts. Tremendous level of collaboration is required for any supply chain. Slightest of disruptions ruin the whole supply chain system. For instance, car manufacturing cannot […]
Cargo Thefts
There was a news from LA recently of thieves raiding the cargo containers, looting packages that belonged to people from all over the US from big retailers. Safe and secure movement of cargo is vital for the world economy. Right from raw materials required to feed people and manufacture products to the delivery of finished […]
New Weekend – A positive change for businesses
Saturday is the new Friday now. Employees and school children juggled work and studies with weekly Muslim prayers on the first ever working Friday in the UAE as the country officially switched to a Saturday-Sunday weekend. UAE announced last month that from the start of 2022 the public work week will go down to 4.5 […]
2021: A year of Covid variants and riding on the tide of freight rates (2022 Omicron Chaos)
In the beginning everything halted. However, as supply chains began to slowly click back into gear, there were massive network disruptions followed by sudden, unforeseen spikes in demand patterns that found some industry sectors barely hanging on for survival. There was widespread news of an upcoming boom. 2021 started with lockdown and ended in lockdown […]
Understanding the Seasonality of Freight ( Impact of Holiday Season on Supply Chain )
There are two essential factors that effect the transportation industry – supply and demand (market conditions). These determine the rates and the capacity. Each year, typical seasonal shifts are witnessed in market conditions. One needs to understand and acknowledge this. Having knowledge of the seasonality of freight helps one in understanding the dynamics of freight […]
State of Supply Chain Globally
Everywhere you look there are signs of supply chain disturbances, just about anywhere, and it is no surprise. Global supply chain issues are front and center in today’s world. For instance, congestions at the port, truck driver availability, challenges related to equipment (containers and chassis), among all others. Disruption has seen major capacity crunches, rise […]
Impact of GCC rail network on Logistics
A great mode of transport across the world, rail has remained advantageous, reliable and an economical mode of transport. Rail network plays a significant role and UAE believes it helps in developing the nation and supporting sustainable growth in the region. This led to the establishment of Etihad Rail in 2009 with the mandate to […]
Shippers with ‘unreasonable’ expectations are causing headaches for forwarders – big and small
Exhausted forwarders have expressed that their job is currently extremely stressful, particularly in the air cargo peak, owing to quickly changing freight rates and capacity, and long delays. One air freight source at a major forwarder said shippers, unsurprisingly perhaps, were furious to find that a rate agreed previously would no longer see their freight […]