With the Chinese New Year holiday around the corner, Chinese factories are struggling to keep their factories staffed while employees fall ill with Covid.

The increased demand during the pandemic years revealed some serious issues in the Chinese reign as a global manufacturer king.

Racking 37.3 million TEUs in 2022, the port’s minuscule decline of 0.7% compared to the previous year is just a blip on the radar.

John Ferguson, chief executive officer of TBM Consulting Group, spoke with Supply Chain Brain about the hot topic.

Supply chain managers globally are likely thinking that it’s the “same old song and dance”.

Germany has traded Russia for Norway as the country’s import share dropped to just 22% in 2022. Russia began gradually cutting its gas supply via the Nord Stream pipeline to Germany over the summer and shortly thereafter ceased supplying via pipeline in September.

With massive investments in electric vehicle manufacturing, china is leading the globe in its race to electrify the streets.

Once paraded as the best option for cheap labor in the manufacturing sector, China’s workers have become more skilled and less poverty-stricken.

The growing public protest forced China and President Xi Jinping to pull back on the forced quarantines and factory lockdowns, but it remains to be seen if it’s too little too late for China’s global supply chain.

BYD, a Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer, has ordered several car carriers to transport their products across the oceans on their own equipment.

On a federal level, cannabis remains an illegal substance in the United States.

While harsh sanctions have been imposed on Russia and its companies since February 2022 and the invasion of Ukraine, Japan has hesitated to join the fray.

Tesla, once seen as the “prized jewel” of electric vehicles, is now suffering from a plunge of 65% in stock value.

As e-commerce has grown in Southeast Asia, there has been an increased demand for logistics services such as package delivery, warehousing, and fulfillment.

Lying in a strategic location at the crossroads of several major transportation corridors in the central United States, St. Louis is easily accessible by road, rail, and river.

Nearshoring refers to the practice of moving business operations or manufacturing facilities to a location that is closer to the company's primary market - typically, to a different region within the same country or to a neighboring country.

The U.S. has significant domestic reserves of many of the minerals used in battery production, including lithium, cobalt, and nickel.

China's economy is important for the Port of Los Angeles for a number of reasons.

Overall, careful planning, working with reliable carriers, communicating with the carrier, using intermodal transportation, and negotiating terms can all help companies avoid demurrage and detention charges in the logistics industry.

Ohio is centrally located in the United States, making it an ideal location for distributing products to other parts of the country.