While there are other factors in driving up supply chain costs, it cannot be refuted that maritime costs are adding to inflation.
SoCal imports suffering multimonth slide, not because of falling demand, but because of supply chain bottlenecks.
The Biden administration wants consumer protection regulators to examine whether giant retailers are creating supply chain distortions for smaller businesses.
New barometer from NY Federal Reserve highlights how extreme supply chain crunch has become.
After a year and a half of predictive misses, procurement teams and supply chain managers are in need of Lithium to help treat their bipolar ordering behavior.
Trucking companies received an unexpected boost to their income statements in 2020 but inflation clouds loom.
Fleets and individual truckers buying at today’s elevated prices
assume a big risk when the used equipment market normalizes.
Air cargo is typically unaffordable for most shippers. With ocean rates off the charts, air doesn’t look so bad. If you can find a booking, why wouldn’t you fly?
Media coverage increasingly links consumer price inflation to container shipping and supply chain chaos.
From 1987 to 2017, frontal air bags saved 50,457 U.S. lives.
FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller analyzes inflation in the supply chain.
Costco is going boating. Unwilling to wait for space on commercial vessels, it is now renting its own ships to haul exports from Asia.
Supply chain bottlenecks are raising red flags for inflation down the road.
On this episode of The Stockout, Mike Baudendistel explores rising prices and the threat of inflation as stocks plummet.
The situation for importers is getting even more dire. Already extreme container rates are ascending to even higher peaks.
On this episode of Freightonomics, Anthony Smith and Zach Strickland discuss whether inflation could pose a threat to a recovering U.S. economy.
A comparison of U.S. annual inflation rates to Freightos daily shipping rates over the course of two years
The odds are more iconic retail brands will declare bankruptcy in 2020
Donald Broughton writes a thought-provoking commentary about how technology has killed inflation.
