![]() ![]() Each parcel delivery should consider not only the destination but also the origin of the shipment since many shippers have multiple warehouses or stores from which they can fulfill orders. Multi-carrier shipping strategies also need rules in place related to delivery time requirements, special conditions (hazmat, refrigeration, etc.), and distribution points across a network. Recently, as carriers increasingly presented shippers with volume-based pricing and outright caps on the number of parcels they will accept, many shippers added business rules to their multi-carrier shipping strategies to specifically address how to handle decisions related to capacity limitations, volume-related costs, and volume-related rate increases. Proactive shippers have used multi-carrier parcel shipping technologies and strategies to navigate rising carrier costs for years. ![]() Carrier capacity management strategies ease the crunch They have less negotiation power with carriers and partners. In some cases, those same caps bring even higher costs. They must navigate carrier parcel volume caps. The net effect creates a difficult reality for shippers. Consumer expectations for cheap and fast shipping continue to climb, and consumers increasingly want to order across borders, only compounding the problems. Requirements to manage carrier invoices and other transactions grow in stride. E-commerce order volume keeps climbing, straining carrier capacity with shippers sending more parcels outbound and receiving more returns inbound. ![]() Most shippers currently face a long list of challenges thanks to some well-known trends. Carrier capacity tops the list of parcel shippers’ challenges Even if much of their sought-after inventory remains stuck at sea, merchants still need to move products that are available, and this brings its own set of relentless challenges. Workforce shortages and other challenges abound throughout all transportation sectors, and while this may revitalize investments in localized manufacturing, expanded warehousing to hold more inventory, and other efforts, these changes do not solve today’s issues.ĭespite the epic supply chain problems, some companies have taken big steps to profitably meet consumer demand leading up to and during the busy holiday season. Just two days before Thanksgiving, FreightWaves reported an “all-time-high 93 ships” were waiting there. We work in 123 countries and territories, combining emergency assistance with long-term development while adapting our activities to the context and challenges of each location and its people.The unprecedented cargo logjams off the southern California coast wreaking havoc on supply chains show no signs of waning. “It’s important this fertilizer crunch is solved,” said Stefan Meyer, an economist with WFP’s Economic and Market Analysis Unit.ĭue to the rising global population and inefficiencies of global food systems, such as massive food wastage and loss, the problem is that “we have to produce enough on the available land – land is limited – and fertilizer is an important component of that,” he said. In a welcome development, Russian firm Uralchem-Uralkali announced in November its intention to donate 260,000 metric tons of NPK, stuck in ports in Europe, as humanitarian aid.Īnd so on 29 November, on behalf of the Government of Malawi, the WFP-chartered vessel MV Greenwich left the Dutch port of Terneuzen with 20,000 metric tons of fertilizers, bound for Malawi via Mozambique. But the war in Ukraine has led to cuts in the supply of fertilizers to people in countries on the frontlines of the global food crisis. Russia is a big exporter of three major groups of fertilizers – nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (NPK) – and has a vital role to play in ensuring sufficient food production for next year. In terms of calories, that’s enough to feed 282 million people for one year, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). The food security of 50 percent of the world’s population, who depend on food produced with the help of mineral fertilizers, is at risk.ĭue to fertilizer shortages, global production of maize, rice, soybean and wheat is expected to be down 2.4 percent in 2022, according to Gro Intelligence, a New York-based analytics platform. In 2023, there could be a major food-availability crisis as the global fertilizer crunch, climate shocks and conflict upend food production. There was enough food but at the wrong price and in the wrong place, meaning the poor could not afford it. In 2022, the world struggled with a price crisis. ![]() The WFP-chartered MV Greenwich is loaded with fertilizer in the Netherlands Democratic Republic of the Congo emergency.We work in 123 countries and territories, combining emergency assistance with long-term development while adapting our activities to the context and challenges of each location and its people. ![]()
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