Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse, Bloomberg News is reporting that China has decided to partly shut-down the world’s third-busiest container port after a worker became infected with Covid. This will obviously create additional delays in ocean shipping and negatively impact US importer’s supply chains. Of course, these delays will also result in […]
No one could have imagined that some 16 months after the “official” start of the pandemic that Global Supply Chains would still be negatively impacted by Covid-19. But the reality is we STILL are and probably will be for a while. The folks at Everstream Analytics monitors and produces a weekly summary of supply chain […]
This should come as no surprise to any company whose business relies on imports from Asia to North America. Once again the ocean carriers operating in this service lane have announced the following increases. Effective September 1, 2021 General Rate Increase (GRI) has been filed for all cargo imported from Asia ports of loading, to […]
The United States Postal Service filed notice today with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) regarding a temporary price adjustment for key package products for the 2021 Peak Holiday Shipping Season. This temporary rate adjustment is similar to one imposed in 2020 that anticipated heightened peak-season package and shipping demand, which typically results in extra handling […]
Covid-19 continues to play havoc with Global Supply Chains with various starts and stops throughout the world. Here are the latest updates on from our friends at Everstream Analytics, who monitors and produces these weekly summaries of supply chain impacts due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The update is provided free-of-charge to the industry. In […]
As recently reported by Multi Channel Merchant, and without a lot of fanfare and advanced notice to their shipper customers, UPS is ending a freeze on earned discount tiers based on large shipping volume drops caused by COVID-19 lockdowns. This change will apparently affect some UPS parcel shippers to experience increases in the 10% to […]
