{"id":3224,"date":"2021-10-27T16:28:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T16:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/supply-chain-chaos-has-logistics-sector-on-edge-panel\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:43:50","slug":"supply-chain-chaos-has-logistics-sector-on-edge-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/supply-chain-chaos-has-logistics-sector-on-edge-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply Chain \u2018Chaos\u2019 Has Logistics Sector on Edge: Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While port congestion is nothing new, leaders in the transportation and logistics industry say the current delays and disruption in the supply chain is much different than cycles seen in the past. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhat we\u2019ve got now is different than what we have seen before because we have saturation across all nodes,\u201d John Butler, president and CEO of the World Shipping Council, said during American Trucking Associations\u2019 2021 Management Conference & Exhibition (MCE) in Nashville. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a situation where our collective customers aren\u2019t able to pull the goods forward out of the ports because they\u2019ve got no place to put them or no way to send them on to their final destination.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As Fleet Owner reports, a panel of experts agree that longstanding challenges are now combined with new supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic, which has carriers, railroads, shippers and consumers \u201con edge.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe good news, though, is that in the same way this thing kind of got worse over time and one negative challenge would lead to another, when it starts to unwind, I think we are going to see synergies across the supply chain,\u201d Butler added. \u201cIf it starts to unwind in one place, it will make it a little better back up the chain.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Moderated by\u00a0<\/span>Shelley Simpson, chief commercial officer for J.B. Hunt, the panel also included ATA President and CEO Chris Spear, Association of American Railroads (AAR) President and CEO Ian Jefferies, and National Shippers Strategic Transportation Council (NASSTRAC) Executive Director Gail Rutkowski joined Butler to address today’s supply chain challenges within their specific sectors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A unique challenge for shippers, NASSTRAC’s Rutkowski said, is that many of them didn\u2019t take the time when they had the chance to thoroughly determine the importance of the supply chain within their own companies. Butler noted that from an international ocean shipping perspective, WSC is seeing the same thing that many are seeing domestically and all over the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe problems we are having here\u2014particularly with port and inland congestion and the difficulties getting labor and keeping cargo and equipment moving as opposed to sitting at a port or customer warehouse\u2014are happening all over the world,\u201d Butler explained. \u201cIn order for all of this to unwind, we need to see improvement in ports all over the world at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pointing out that the supply chain is truly integrated, AAR\u2019s Jeffries noted that when any piece of the supply chain can\u2019t operate at full capacity, it has reverberating impacts. The rail sector, he said, has seen unprecedented volumes in the last six months, and this year the rail industry moved a record amount of intermodal freight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0ATA\u2019s Spear said he believes it will come down to collaboration among all modes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI always look at trucking as the glue,\u201d Spear said. \u201cWe are involved in so many points along the way throughout the supply chain, so we see a lot as a result of that. The\u00a0<\/span>driver shortage\/worker shortage\u00a0<\/span>is really our front-burner priority and to get more talent into the industry and moving more freight as an outcome of that. We are also seeing some additional elements throughout the supply chain that are just as impactful\u2014chassis shortage, yard space, and the ability to stack containers from two to four was just recently lifted in California so we have more space to position the containers before they are loaded on the chassis or the train.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0It\u2019s a culmination of a bunch of things under that worker shortage pressure that is making a very significant challenge,\u00a0\u00bb Spear added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So, when will things get back to normal for the supply chain? ATA\u2019s Spear projected at least three quarters\u2014if not four\u2014before some of this gets resolved. But he anticipates it will be turbulent along the way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jefferies warned that government intervention and new regulations in the middle of a crisis can be \u201cextremely damaging and shortsighted.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI would really caution policymakers, the government, and the administration to step back and refrain from that knee-jerk need to get in and do an emergency order here or a regulatory order there,\u201d he said. \u201cIt may feel good at the moment, but you\u2019re most likely causing more harm than helping the system overall for the long run.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As for Rutkowski, she doesn\u2019t necessarily want to go back to normal because normal hasn’t been working. Instead, she emphasized the need for the supply chain to unify and work together.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cShippers need to get smarter,\u201d she advised. \u201cThey need to get better about how they communicate and talk to their providers. And providers need to be more forthcoming about some of the issues may be caused by the shippers. If you don\u2019t tell them, they can\u2019t fix it. That would help, but why would we want to return to normal? It isn\u2019t working.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Full Fleet Owner article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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