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Watch: Supply Chains 2022: Problems and Solutions

Tom Coughlin, a fellow with IEEE, offers a glimpse into the new year and how global supply chains will fare in the coming months.

Supply Chains 2022: Problems and Solutions

Getting the COVID-19 Vaccines to Developing Countries

As of mid-December, 61.4% of Americans were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 — a rate that disease experts say is inadequate to eradicate the virus. But it’s far better than the shockingly low numbers of some developing countries, where vaccination rates are still in the single digits.

Staff members load COVID-19 vaccine equipment onto a boat during a vaccine drive on the remote Philippine island of San Salvador. Photo: Bloomberg.

Watch: Why Companies Are Considering Supply Chain Disruption Insurance

Robyn Anderson, attorney in the insurance and recovery practice of Lathrop GPM, and Rick Bridges, vice president and account executive for supply chain and logistics with Lockton Companies, discuss how recent events have awakened companies to the need for business interruption insurance.

Why Companies Are Considering Supply Chain Disruption Insurance

Covid Testing Kits Could Be Harder to Find, Thanks to Supreme Court

If you’ve attempted to purchase an at-home COVID-19 test recently, you may have walked away from the store empty-handed. There’s been a nationwide shortage of at-home tests that hit at nearly the same time as the Omicron variant began to peak in almost every state.

A close up of the Supreme Court of the United States. Photo: Getty Images.

LA, Long Beach Ports Move Record Cargo Despite Logjams

The Port of Los Angeles moved record cargo volumes last year amid an import surge at the U.S.’s biggest container gateway and supply chain snarls brought on by the pandemic.

Shipping containers in the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

How Real-Time Geospatial Data Helps Seaports in Crisis

As supply chain challenges continue to disrupt the global transportation network, container shipping companies need to adapt to equipment shortages and delays by transforming their operations.

A CMA CGM Group container ship is berthed at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, California. Photo: Port of Oakland.

This Wearable Tech Supports Safety of Increasingly Remote Workforce

Nearly two years into the pandemic, the future of the workplace remains unclear.

Universal emergency number '9-1-1' is shown on a smartphone keypad. Photo: Oleg Magni/ Pexels.

The Future of Food Retail Is a Hybrid Approach to Shopping

From erecting cardboard cutouts designed to obscure produce shortages to jettisoning their usual discounts and promotions, grocers have turned to a range of solutions to get themselves through the global supply chain crisis.

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Supply Chain Crisis Helped Shipping Companies Reap $150 Billion in 2021

Economists warn that persistently high transportation prices are stoking inflation and clouding the recovery.

Container ships moored off the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports in Long Beach, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

Watch: How Creative Financing Can Ease Supply Chain Strains

John Felix, managing director of White Oak Global Advisors, lays out the financing options that middle-market companies can deploy to reduce the stress on their supply chains and cash position.

How Creative Financing Can Ease Supply Chain Strains

CEOs Fear Supply Chain Woes Will Cost Them Their Jobs

The C-suite is a bundle of nerves this winter. A survey shows that 72% of chief executive officers are worried about losing their jobs in 2022 because of business disruptions, tracking closely with the 94% of bosses who say their corporate models need to be overhauled within three years.

C Suites Top Concerns

LA Looters Raid Unattended Containers Amid Supply Chain Chaos

As many Americans worry about empty shelves and delayed packages, looters are taking advantage of the inflow of goods outside of the two southern California ports that are responsible for handling almost half of all U.S. imports.

CBS footage shows lines of looted packages stretching along a railway in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles. Photo: @johnschreiber/ Twitter.

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