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Nearly 70% of global logistics executives say they are bracing for recession amid higher costs, slowing demand, and ongoing supply chain disruption arising from China’s battle to contain COVID, Russia’s war in Ukraine, and the impact of climate change.
Raghu Ramachandran, Business Analyst and Founding Partner of 13 Colony Global, re-visits his predictions for 2022 to score his thoughts.
An overview of India’s National Logistics Policy. Why, What and Next Steps. By Raghu Ramachandran, Business Analyst and Founding Partner of 13 Colony Global.
The balance of supply and demand in early 2023 will be a mix of mediocre or flat demand combined with strengthening supply, according to Ti’s Q4 2022 Air Freight Tracker.
Diesel prices, driver shortages and drought in Europe have all played a significant role to push average European road freight rates up again in Q3 despite lower consumer spending. However, data from the end of the quarter shows prices softening towards the end of Q3.
The pharmaceutical sector has long been one of the most influential and profitable sectors in the global economy and will exceed $1.5 trillion in value by 2023. With a rapidly ageing population in the West and increasing levels of wealth in developing countries, the market for pharmaceuticals will only continue to grow.
DFDS is “in a strategic dialogue” with Turkish logistics service provider Ekol Logistics to explore the possibility of acquiring Ekol’s “international road haulage activities”.
In the past few weeks, it has come to the attention of a few news outlets that a dedicated unit of Amazon – The ‘Pan-Amazon Team’, has been engaging with clients of their Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform to consider various other Amazon products and services. This would include Amazons logistics and supply chains services.
Disruption and sky-high rates were the main causes of pain for emerging markets in 2022 but a digital future promised post-pandemic growth. Is that still true for 2023?
Global express market growth driven by strong domestic and cross-border e-commerce sales but growth set to slow, warn Ti analysts in latest research report – Express and Small Parcels Report 2022.
There is no gainsaying the fact that Inventory is a double-edged sword. Too little leads to irate customers, and too much of it has margins shrinking along with market capitalisation, as evidenced by the selloff in Walmart and Target shares over the past month. In a whitepaper written for this publication in January, it was …
Over the past few weeks, the extreme hot weather in northern Europe has resulted in several outages in the data centres of Google and Oracle. Elsewhere in the world, data centres running Microsoft Azure services have also experienced unexpected outages.
