Is PSR just another shorthand for cost cutting? It seems shippers think they are getting more financial responsibility for admin and maintenance now that most class I rails have adopted PSR practices.
Firms are usually trying to save money. And with the declines and constraints of COVID-19, I’m sure cost cutting is being practiced. but are shippers seeing the short end of the stick on important practices?
It would not surprise me; perhaps rails need a warning to shape up.
Posted in Logistics, Rail, Service Management, Supply Chains
Tagged maintenance, operations, PSR, Rail
Brexit is coming, and it’s clear that the government, which has been pushing Brexit along, has chosen not to invest or prioritize systems for logistics. The logistics community will be forced into dealing with a tangle of poorly understood rules and policies, documentation requirements and restrictions, that no one has bothered to foresee as a complete package. Logistics firms particularly trucking firms (though all sectors have their issues) hve complained loudly. Now it’s for a long time.
There has been ample warning for the government of the problems, despite a bit of uncertainty about whether and exactly how Brexit would happen. But The government all along has known that there would need to be massive change. They just have not bothered to assess and remedy the defects by making double sure that processes were in place and well understood, nor did they factor logistics, the ‘point person’ affected by Brexit, into the negotiations or the processes.
This article shows the laughable government response in Britain to logistics firms’ complaints. In a classic Trumpian moment, they blame the folks who are complaining.
It’s as though we were to blame the Chinese Communist party for coronavirus…
Oh, I think someone did that just recently.
By Alex Lennane 23/09/2020
Fury as UK government looks to blame predicted Brexit chaos on logistics sector – The Loadstar
Posted in Logistics, Ports, Supply Chains, Trucking
Tagged Brexit, information systems, international trade, Logistics
Ocean carriers are suddenly waking up to the fact that supply chain disruptions for their customers are bad for relations. Now they’ve decided that they blanked too many voyages. And thehoarding of containers by customers who usethem to store goods they’ve already taken possession of has disrupted things further. There just aren’t enough containers and chassis to get cargo from China and to move it about.
They should have thought about the repercussions in the supply chains when they started out reducing service.
The main advantage of ocean shipping is the cost and large quantity; if the service becomes marginally reliable in terms of time of delivery, naturally people are going to look for alternatives like buying larger quantities, beyond storage space, and using the containers to help out.
Supply chain performance is about matching supply to demand, and ocean carriers should continue to remember that it’s not about them, but about their customers’ needs.
By Gavin van Marle 21/09/2020
Link: https://theloadstar.com/2m-restores-transpacific-capacity-and-pleads-for-return-of-empty-containers/
Posted in Logistics, Shipping, Strategy, Supply Chains
Tagged blankings, Chassis, containers, intermodal, Logistics, ocean shipping, supply chains
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