by Stuart Todd Feb 20, 2024
Automotive near-shoring to backdrop of geopolitical tensions
The COVID pandemic and the havoc it wreaked on global supply chains and transportation networks, is widely-viewed as serving to galvanize shippers into considering a near-shoring strategy, with the aim of reducing risks from unforeseen events and enhancing visibility and control over processes spanning raw material procurement to order fulfilment.
Volatile environment continues to dog European automotive logistics
Europe’s automotive logistics providers have experienced a protracted period of turbulence.
French farmers take protest to Paris
French farmers’ angry, sometimes violent protests over the past fortnight in blocking major highways across the country, as they push to obtain better working conditions, has placed the European Union’s agricultural policy firmly under the spotlight while also reviving a nationalistic and protectionist outlook on trade.
2024’s profusion of government elections: A potential disruptor for the supply chain?
With 76 major elections to be held in 2024, could the outcomes prove to be a disruptor for the supply chain?
Trucknet sets up Gulf-Israel/Egypt ‘land bridge’
Trucknet’s landbridge operation bypasses troubled Red Sea pinch point.
DB Schenker: Biggest takeover of a logistics group so far this century
The upcoming sale of German state-owned DB Schenker is big news — $13 to $16 billion — worth is the estimated sales value of the company. But who will buy this giant logistics enterprise and at what price? These are big questions that loom for not only Schenker’s but the entire logistics industry...
Trucknet sets up a Gulf-Israel/Egypt land bridge
Trucknet’s landbridge operation bypasses the troubled Red Sea pinch point...
European road freight’s decarbonization challenge
Road freight must almost entirely decarbonize by 2050 and this enormous challenge is made even more daunting given that demand for truck services is expected to triple over the same timeframe.
Red Sea attacks herald fresh period of uncertainty for supply chains
An escalation in drone and missile strikes on maritime shipping passing through the Bab al-Mandab Strait at the southern mouth of the Red Sea has heralded a fresh period of uncertainty for global supply chains and left shippers on...
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