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How the U.K.-EU Trade Deal Impacts Supply Chains

For the most part, the trade agreement maintains continuity of supply and prevents greater challenges that industries might have faced without it.

Inflation Risk Intensifies With Supply Shortages Multiplying

Signs of inflation are picking up, with a mounting number of consumer-facing companies warning in recent days that supply shortages and logistical logjams may force them to raise prices.

Photo: Bloomberg

Summer of Sold-Out Ships Awaits as Sea Cargo Chaos Intensifies

Container shipping rates are heading higher again, driven to new heights by unrelenting consumer demand and company restocking from Europe to the U.S. that are exhausting the world economy’s capacity to move goods across oceans.

Photo courtesy of the Port of Los Angeles.

Shipping Containers Are Falling Overboard at a Rapid Rate

Containers piled high on giant vessels carrying everything from car tires to smartphones are toppling over at an alarming rate, sending millions of dollars of cargo sinking to the bottom of the ocean as pressure to speed deliveries raises the risk of safety errors.

Photo: Bloomberg

U.S. Companies Bump Up Prices on Supply Squeeze, Demand Boom

U.S. companies face soaring bills for all kinds of materials that they need to do business — and surging demand is helping them pass on those higher costs to their customers.

Photo: Bloomberg

Watch: How Can Manufacturers Meet Current and Future Labor Needs?

Bill Currence, president and managing partner of Cornerstone Consulting Organization, tells of the difficulties that manufacturers are experiencing in attracting workers in the midst of the pandemic, and what the employment picture will look like when it’s over.

How Can Manufacturers Meet Current and Future Labor Needs?

Watch: Can Importers Still Use the ‘First Sale’ Rule for Goods From China?

Dana Watts, counsel with Miller & Chevalier, explains the “first sale” rule for reducing U.S. importers’ duty levels, and discusses whether it remains a viable method for achieving that purpose.

Can Importers Still Use the ‘First Sale’ Rule for Goods From China?

Soaring Global Food Prices Are Heading to Grocery Stores

“This is a very volatile environment right now, very low visibility, lots of surprise,” said Nestle Chief Executive Mark Schneider. “We will take pricing action.”

Photo: Bloomberg

How K.C. Southern Morphed From Rail Dark Horse to $30 Billion Prize

In less than a year, Kansas City Southern has transformed from an industry wallflower to the belle of the ball, getting courted by Canada’s two biggest railroads.

A Kansas City Southern freight train. Photo: Bloomberg.

Oakland Tops L.A. Area as Ships Inundate World’s Ports

It’s hard to predict when normality will return.

Source: Port of Oakland

Biden Confronts Decades of Union Decline in Bid to Boost Pay

The globalization of supply chains, technological advancements that allow companies to replace labor, legal barriers to organizing and the shrinking share of factory workers — traditionally easier to organize — in the workforce have all taken a toll.

Source: Bloomberg

Supply Chain Leaders, It’s Time to Play Offense

Here are six plays to try.

Photo: Pexels

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