Entries from Chemicals & The Economy tagged with 'supply chain'
Current shipping costs = 9% trade tariff
I noted in June that P&G were reviewing their global supply chain strategy, as a result of higher oil prices. Now a study by Canadian Bank CIBC suggests the rise in shipping costs equals a '9% tariff on trade', adding...
P&G reviews its supply chain model
Higher oil prices will change the way that Procter & Gamble operates its supply chain. The world's largest consumer products company describes its current operations as being 'upside down'. 'They were implemented in the 1980s and 1990s, when oil was...
Shipbuilding hit by credit squeeze and long lead-times
The chemical industry moves a lot of product by ship. Recent rises in freight rates have therefore had a major impact on costs for producers and consumers. But there was always the thought that rates would soon decline, once shipbuilders...
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