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Watch: Supply Chain Congestion: Can This Mess Be Fixed?

Severe congestion is impacting every stage of the global supply chain. Charles Armstrong, founding partner at Orion Advisors Group, explains how we came to this state of affairs.

Supply Chain Congestion: Can This Mess Be Fixed?

Watch: What’s Shaping Up on the Trade Front in 2022

Lee Smith, attorney and leader of the International Trade & Security Practice of the law firm of Baker Donelson, lays out the major trade issues that importers and exporters are likely to encounter in the coming year.

What’s Shaping Up on the Trade Front in 2022

From Covid's Legacy to Containers Falling Overboard: These Are Our Top Stories of 2021

Here’s a look back at our most-clicked stories this year — which showcase the worst of the crisis, new ideas that it spurred, and a glimpse at how we got here.

Top Stories Of 2021 Web

China’s Solar Industry Is Slowly Shifting Away From Xinjiang

Chinese solar companies are gradually shifting the country’s solar supply chain away from Xinjiang as the U.S. increases its scrutiny of the region.

Photovoltaic panels stand in a floating solar farm on the outskirts of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China. Photo: Bloomberg.

Rising Inflation Hits Holiday Menus Around the World

Mince pies. Latkes. Eggnog. Tamales. As extended families the world over plan holiday celebrations again, they’re encountering a harsh reality: Traditional foods, especially those sold for a limited time in even a normal year, are significantly costlier in 2021 — if they’re even available at all.

Assorted holiday cookies sit on a baking rack. Photo: Jonathan Meyer/ Pexels.

Europe Is Desperate for LNG While Asia Has More Than It Needs

Asia’s relentless buying of liquefied natural gas earlier this year has left the region so well stocked for winter that spot shipments are being diverted to energy-hungry Europe.

An LNG power ship undocks in Singapore. Photo: Bloomberg.

Why Thanksgiving 2021 Was the Most Expensive Yet

In 2020, the average cost of Thanksgiving dinner for a family of 10 was $46.90 per person, an all-time low. Fast forward to 2021, and Thanksgiving was the most expensive on record.

How to Manage Cross-Border E-Commerce Costs to Booming Latin American Market

Latin America's e-commerce market offers great potential for international retailers, but comes with a complex, cross-border learning curve.

Firms Brace for Extra Brexit Red Tape Amid Supply Chain Squeeze

Just as firms wrestle with a global supply chain crisis and fresh pandemic restrictions, companies in the U.K. and European Union face another looming headache: More post-Brexit red tape.

A truck passes shipping containers on the dockside at the Port of Felixstowe Ltd. in Felixstowe, U.K. Photo: Bloomberg.

Supply Chain Hell Ignites Economic Boom Along U.S.-Mexico Border

Wedged up against the southern edge of the Rio Grande, the sprawling desert city of Juarez has seen its share of economic booms over the years. But perhaps none quite like the one that’s taken hold today.

At the TSC Miami factory in Juarez, Mexico, workers design and print T-shirts. Photo: Bloomberg.

Vanishing Ships Underscore Supply Woe: Crisis Peak Is a Mirage

A line of more than 80 container ships waiting to dock at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, was cut in half in late November — or so it seemed. Turns out the vessels disappearing from the queue were merely hiding from it, loitering in the Pacific out of reach of the official count.

Container ships berthed at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

Once-Stuck Ship Gets Another Chance for Passage Through the Suez Canal

Less than nine months after getting stuck in the Suez Canal, the Ever Given appears ready to give the northbound passage another try.

The Ever Given container ship departs the Suez Canal in Egypt on July 7. Photo: Bloomberg.

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