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Sorting Out The Loqistics Mess
| 题名： | Sorting Out The Loqistics Mess |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 摘要： | It's evident to anyone who depends on logistics-in oth-er words, pretty much everyone-that the supply chain is in a mess. We now know, according to figures newly released by the Federal Reserve, that the lockdown recession formally ended in April of last year, making it the shortest recession on record. But the logistics impacts extended much longer. Orders and supply chains slowed as buyers hoarded their dollars and switched their purchases during the lockdown. Truck drivers were laid off, in-cluding short-haul or drayage drivers, exacerbating what was al-ready a shortage of truck drivers. When the economy began to recover, causing huge imbalances of imports and exports, many of those laid-off drivers had already decided to retire or find oth-er work, worsening the driver shortage. A worldwide container snarl has been one result. On June 15, the Federal Maritime Commission released the results of its Fact Finding 29 report, initiated at the request of shippers who complain of being unable to export some ag products due to container unavailability, and of being charged fees called deten-tion and demurrage, levied when shippers don't get their con-tainers to a terminal within a certain time window. For some containerized products, the fees can accumulate up to 20 times the value of the cargo, or $100 a day. The ocean carriers retort that the fees incentivize efficient usage of their cargo space and fuel and reduce emissions to boot. According to one logistics site, such fees were rare 10 years ago but are much more common today. |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | The Waterways Jouranl |
| 卷： | 135 |
| 期： | 17 |
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