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These disruptions cascaded into the global shipping industry where ports like the Port of Los Angeles, a major hub for imports from Asia, are unable to clear their shipyards in a timely fashion, further exacerbating the supply chain crisis. This has led to suggestions that stockpiles and diversification of suppliers should be more heavily focused.
Supply chain disruptions have always been a part of global trade. However, a new report from HSBC highlights how companies in the current market are increasingly exposed to unexpected global events.
However, recent regulation and crises—the "chip shortage," the U.S. ban on Xinjiang cotton, and the crackdown on Scope 3 emissions, to name a few—are compelling more industries to finally map ...
Supply chain woes and a labor shortage are contributing to rising inflation that the Federal Resolve is hard-pressed to halt, the Wall Street Journal reports. The shortages are expected to hit many...
The 2021–2022 global supply chain crisis further stressed the delivery of extracted petroleum. Additionally, as Europe sought to replace Russian gas, it bid up prices of U.S., Australian, and Qatari ship-borne liquefied natural gas (LNG), diverting supply away from traditional LNG customers in Asia. Because gas frequently sets the price at ...
The Lehman Wave is presumed to have a wave-like character because of the elasticity of the supply chains in which it takes place. Each individual supply chain acts as a string that is oscillating. All supply chains together form the economy, which also oscillates. The wave character of the Lehman Wave makes it possible to predict its cause.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -New orders for key U.S.-made capital goods and shipments unexpectedly fell in February after nine straight monthly increases, but a rebound is likely as factory activity ...
As Indonesia is the largest producer of palm oil, and with a harvest decline in the second largest producer and neighbor Malaysia, the ban has caused severe global supply chain disruptions and further exacerbated the price increases caused by the loss of Russian and Ukrainian oil exports and failures of soy crops in South America. [85]