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The supply chain management and logistics industries move quickly. Our team provides time-sensitive and urgent information about conditions affecting markets around the world. Read more by clicking on one of the stories below.
Easter Blanked Sailings, Shelter-In-Place Orders And Business Continuity
Every day, TOC holds a status call with our account managers, planners and partners in Europe to share what changes in conditions have taken place in the preceding 24 hours. This is insightful for all of us because as we rely on our team of subject matter experts who...
European Transport Situation Remains Fluid As China Reopens For Business
With current dynamic state of freight transport, we are sharing our latest market intelligence to help guide customers in minimizing, wherever possible, delays and extra costs in their supply chains. For Europe, we are not currently seeing issues preventing pickups...
Protection on the Dock: Working to ensure safe person-to-person contact
The challenges posed by COVID-19 and the solutions that are required to simultaneously maintain the flow of goods while ensuring the protection of vital and important workers who have person-to-person contact during the process of picking up and delivering cargo is of...
European travel restrictions imposed by Denmark, Poland and Czech Republic
Today, in an effort to flatten the curve of COVID-19, a number of European countries announced their intention of closing their borders to foreign nationals. As of this writing, that list includes Denmark, Poland and the Czech Republic. See:...
Protection On The Dock: Working To Ensure Safe Person-To-Person Contact
The challenges posed by COVID-19 and the solutions that are required to simultaneously maintain the flow of goods while ensuring the protection of vital and important workers who have person-to-person contact during the process of picking up and delivering cargo is of...
European Travel Restrictions Imposed By Denmark, Poland And Czech Republic
Today, in an effort to flatten the curve of COVID-19, a number of European countries announced their intention of closing their borders to foreign nationals. As of this writing, that list includes Denmark, Poland and the Czech Republic....
European Equipment Shortages
As we have been detailing on our COVID-19 update page, the lack of cargo departing China is creating equipment imbalances in all parts of the world. Exporters rely on a steady supply of import containers to load for export, whether back to Asia or elsewhere in the...
COVID-19 Update
Due to the urgency with which suppliers are trying to move cargo, all-cargo air charters are on the rise and capacity on cargo airlines is at a minimum with fluctuating rates. We are being told by airlines to book now to get in line and we will find out the actual...
Coronavirus Update
As the stories in the news turn from the impact on supply chains to the spread of the virus to multiple countries around the world, we wanted to keep the focus on the situation in China for manufacturing and shipping and provide an update from our partners in country....
Coronavirus Update
Overnight, news broke from Hubei province that the number of reported cases of the novel Coronavirus spiked sharply – sufficient enough it cost two Chinese politicians their jobs. Reporting in the South China Morning Post states two Communist Party officials were...