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Don Juan O’Donojú Don José Isidro Yánez Don Juan Francisco de Ascarate Don Juan José Espinosa de los Monteros* Don José Maria Fagoaga Don Francisco Manuel Sanchez de Tagle Don Antonio Gama
Don Miguel Cervantes y Velasco Don José Manuel Velázquez de la Cadena y Villar y Villamil Don José María Cervantes y Velasco Don Juan María Cervantes y Padilla Don Manuel de Heras Soto Don Pedro José Romero de Terreros Don José María Echevers Valdivieso Don José Mariano Sardaneta y Llorente
En otros mares... Chip Shortage? Now it’s a Shipping Container) Shortage. The never-ending impacts on the auto supply chain continue. We have written extensively on the shortages of chips and other parts, as well as the varied causes for these shortages. Automakers are currently feeling the disruptions of the crisis in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia on their supply chains. This post deals with yet another challenge—a shortage of shipping containers and cargo vessels.
Managing the risks of transporting freight in shipping containers. One of the most significant but under the radar changes introduced to the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) in recent years was giving the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) the power to issue regulatory guidance to the industry. The NHVR has recently released its very first ‘Regulatory Advice’ on managing the risks of transporting freight in shipping containers. Ukraine invasion: Russian aggression snarls global shipping routes, with container pileups and higher freight costs likely. As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine snarls regional logistics and rattles the global commodity market, ripples are spilling over into container shipping, resulting in more delays, less capacity and higher costs, according to experts. The conflict in Ukraine, a country at the nexus of Europe and Asia, is weighing on ocean traffic between the two continents in particular, they said. Expensive Shipping Containers Mean Rough Sailing for Global Trade. The worsening productivity and rising cost of shipping a container are sinking hopes that the world’s supply-chain problems will ease anytime soon. Shipping experts, economists and company executives say any end-of-year optimism that kinks in global supply chains would work themselves out in the first half of 2022 has faded.
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