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Category: Disruption Report

  • Disruption Report

The Disruption Report #26: Young People Don’t Want to Sell, Shipping By Rail Is a Problem, and the Economy Is Slowing Down

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on July 29, 2021July 29, 2021

Young People No Longer Want to Be in Sales The demand for salespeople is up,…

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The Disruption Report #25: The FMC Steps In, Where Are the Trucks, and the Biggest Container Shipping Companies Are…

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on July 21, 2021July 21, 2021

Are Containerized Freight Companies Over-Charging? The Federal Maritime Commission Wants to Find Out. In case…

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Disruption Report #24: $5,000 Freight Surcharges and Container Ship Captains Step on the Gas

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on July 19, 2021July 19, 2021

Excessive Ocean Freight Surcharges Mike Wackett, writing for The Loadstar, a supply chain magazine, leads…

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Disruption Report #23: “The Worst Shipping Disruption Since World War II”

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on July 16, 2021July 20, 2021

The Upward Trend in Container Costs It seems like only yesterday, well, 2019, when a…

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Disruption Report #22: Freight at the Speed of Sound, UnVaccinated Seafarers and Dollar Tree Fights Inflation

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on July 13, 2021August 6, 2021

UnVaccinated Seafarers a Threat to Shipping It’s not only landlubbers who are slow to get…

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Disruption Report #21: Retailers cutting back on orders, Biden Admin Going After Container Shippers, and more

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on July 8, 2021July 8, 2021

Retailers Cutting Back on 3rd and 4th Quarter Purchases We are receiving first reports that…

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Disruption Report #20: FedEx dropping customers, $100,000/day ship leasing, & Yantian is getting back to business

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on June 25, 2021June 28, 2021

Richard Gottlieb – Global Toy News Port of Yantian Is Back to Business The Port…

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Disruption Report #19: Christmas May Be a Challenge, and Some Additional Reasons for the Shipping Logjam

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on June 22, 2021June 23, 2021

By: Richard Gottlieb, Global Toy News “More than 360,000 empty containers were shipped from the port…

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Disruption Report #18; Pallets Prices at an All-Time High, The Fed Chief Gets Humble and My Outakes from Chairman Powell’s Press Conference

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on June 17, 2021June 17, 2021

Pallet Prices at an All-Time High Pallet prices are through the roof. The below is…

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Disruption Report #17: Shipping Problems Worsen, Chinese Factories Close to Preserve the Power Grid, and Inflation Continues.

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on June 11, 2021June 15, 2021

“I am tearing my hair out every day trying to get my orders out of…

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Disruption Report #16, Size Matters, Troubles at the Port of Yantian, and Why People Are Taking Their Time Going Back to Work

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on June 7, 2021July 21, 2021

The Supply Chain Tie Ups Are Getting Worse Manpower at the port [of Yantian] terminal…

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Disruption Report #15: A weaker dollar, and Chinese factories are absorbing cost increases

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on May 31, 2021June 1, 2021

A Weaker U.S. Dollar and a Stronger Chinese Yuan Bloomberg writer, John Authers, offers us…

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Disruption Report #14; The Labor Shortage, Entertainment vs. Toys, and Port Backups Worsen

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on May 24, 2021May 26, 2021

Port of Los Angeles Backup Increases When it comes to shipping, things are heading in…

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Disruption Report #13; A Scarcity of Everything

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on May 17, 2021May 18, 2021

If you enjoy the Disruption Report. You can find all the articles in the series…

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Disruption Report #12: Container Rates to Return to a “Higher Normal” in 2022

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on May 11, 2021May 13, 2021

If you enjoy the Disruption Report. You can find all the articles in the series…

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Disruption Report #11: Container Prices Are Rising…Again

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on May 3, 2021May 6, 2021

If you enjoy the Disruption Report. You can find all the articles in the series…

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The Disruption Report #10: Slow going as pallets become scarce and containers keep falling overboard

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on April 27, 2021April 27, 2021

Pallet Shortage Who thinks about pallets? They’re just ugly, utilitarian pieces of nailed-together wood. Well,…

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Disruption Report #9: Delivery Times Are the Worst Since 1951

  • by Richard Gottlieb
  • Posted on April 20, 2021April 21, 2021

The Backup in L.A. Eases While the Port of Oakland Becomes the New Trouble Spot…

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