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Logistics Holds Up Well for Agility as Aviation Crisis Bites

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in Ocean Freight (TEUs), due to COVID-19 impact on demand due to lockdowns, production stoppages, and economic contraction across industries and geographies. However, H1 saw higher yields in Air Freight due to capacity shortages and a spike in demand for urgent shipments of PPE and other medical equipment.

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Unusual times for breakbulk, says 3PLs

Now, That's Logistics

The Airbus/Schenker initiative, announced in July, offers in an anecdotal glimpse at how 3PLs are maneuvering through the break bulk sectors uncertainty, whose volatility includes: US led tariffs, shipping lines ongoing capacity, consolidation and competition issues, and workforce problems, namely truck driver shortages. In a word: trucking.

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Thursday Note on THE Supply Chain - Birth Rate in The United States

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international capacity, truck capacity, shortages of materials etc.) Second, I hear over and over again from friends in almost every industry in America: They cannot produce fast enough to meet the demand for everything. Given how long it takes to spin up large capital projects I would just say we have to learn to live with it.