Logistics Briefing

1 week ago | ti-insight.com | John Manners-Bell

In a recent address to the Seafocus International Leadership in Maritime & Logistics Conference in Helsinki, Finland, Ti Insight’s CEO, Professor John Manners-Bell, talked about the challenges faced by the global supply chain industry, not least the tariffs introduced on imports to the USA by President Trump. He opened his remarks by saying that whilst the industry had been thrown into crisis by recent events, the problems had been decades in the making.

2 weeks ago | ti-insight.com | Alex Lennane

Air cargo growth rate forecasts have been slashed, owing to the weaker economic outlook and the impact of tariffs and de minimis ban. As the 2 May deadline for the end of the de minimis exemption for China approaches, the outlook is bleak. In January, Trade Data Service’s forecast was for growth of between 3.5% and 7.4% in air cargo; that has been cut to between –0.1% and 0.7%.

3 weeks ago | ti-insight.com | Ian Putzger

In the final weeks before US de minimis exemption for parcels from China ends, UPS and FedEx have implemented an extra charge for this traffic. And recent action by Amazon points to a different future pace for ecommerce. UPS was the first out of the starting blocks with a surcharge of $0.29 per pound on all US-bound parcels from China, Hong Kong, and Macau from 13 April. The integrator’s ‘surge fee’ is applied on the billable weight of a shipment and is subject to its fuel surcharge.

1 month ago | ti-insight.com | John Manners-Bell

The shock which has convulsed global financial markets, the media, politicians and the business community would suggest that President Trump’s tariffs came, as the saying goes, like a bolt from the blue. In fact, the crisis has been decades in the making and can be traced back through the Great Recession of 2008 to China’s accession to the World Trade Organisation – and even beyond.

1 month ago | ti-insight.com | John Manners-Bell

An attempt to re-build the global trading system was always going to result in unprecedented levels of disruption. Unravelling decades of deeply integrated global supply chains cannot be accomplished overnight, but that is exactly what President Trump is trying to achieve. On April 2, he announced his plans for the additional tariffs which will be imposed on imports to the USA sending shockwaves through global stock markets and prompting an outcry from foreign politicians.