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原文传递 2023 Rate Outlook: Will shippers catch a break?

题名：	2023 Rate Outlook: Will shippers catch a break?
正文语种：	eng
作者：	Michael A. Levans
摘要：	In fact, this marks the 18th year that we've produced this print/web event, and our analytics show that this approach continues to yield our most-read magazine feature and our best-attended webcast of the year. We lead off the January issue with a snapshot of the state of the global economy and fuel costs and then examine how those realities will affect freight rates and capacity levels across each mode of transportation over the coming year. The effort gives shippers a clear, 30,000-foot view of where freight costs are heading and why. This year, contributing editor and long-time supply chain consultant Brooks Bentz has stepped in to conduct this annual project. Over the course of the past two months, Bentz spent time with some of the leading freight transportation and fuel analysts in the domestic and global markets. The result of these conversations unfolds on page 20. So, what did Bentz find? "The quick answer is that rates aren't likely to increase much across just about every mode," says Bentz. "So, shippers may catch a break this year, but that's just scratching the surface. Let's hope that 2023 sees the end of some fairly desperate and chaotic situations that drove the cost of supply chain up and the reliability down," says Bentz. According to Bentz, the last couple of years should have opened the eyes of savvy organizations to the need for new ways of looking at the bigger supply chain picture. He believes that, overall, we need to create an approach, methodology and new tools to help optimize supply chain performance-not just the parochial individual components of it. "There's simply too much in the way of latent cost and reliability factors that need to be identified and dealt with," he says.
出版年：	2023
期刊名称：	Logistics Management
卷：	62
期：	1
页码：	7-7