Panic buying has forced supermarkets in Western Australia (WA) to reintroduce buying limits, with the state bracing for shortages for a selection of products amid an ongoing supply chain crisis. Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths have placed limits on goods normally imported from Australia’s eastern states, including toilet paper, painkillers, rice, pasta, and frozen vegetables….
West Australian Supermarkets Announce Buying Limits As Shelves Run Bare
Is Everything Going Swimmingly?
Commentary As Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, has been saying recently, “Everything is going swimmingly.” Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has 100,000 troops massed on the border of Ukraine. Will he invade? Joe Biden, the U.S. president, seems to think a “minor incursion” would be OK. Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, is less enthusiastic about the…
Biden Declares Victory Over the Christmas Supply-Chain Crisis From the White House
December 23, 2021
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President Joe Biden declared ahead of a White House task force meeting on Dec. 22, that his administration’s efforts to eliminate supply-chain bottlenecks ahead of the holiday season had succeeded. Biden met with his Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force, which consisted of administration officials and the CEOs of large private-sector companies. The task force was established…
Supply Chain Chaos Plagues Australian Businesses
December 20, 2021
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Australia’s economic recovery has been stunted by an international supply chain crisis, with businesses struggling to secure critical supplies—a problem many expect will persist into 2022. The pandemic wrought by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus has made timely sea freight a rare commodity, with the intermittent closure of ports cascading into the clogging of…
Fears Grow Imminent Urea Shortage May Leave Australia’s Diesel Fleet Stranded
A large portion of Australia’s fleet of trucks responsible for transporting food, fuel, and other resources may be left unable to operate as a shortfall of urea—a legally-required component in many modern diesel engines—grips international supplies. This comes as the world’s biggest producer of urea, China, banned the export of the resource to prioritise domestic…
Supply Chain Crisis Expected To Intensify As China Installs 7-Week Quarantine
As part of China’s COVID Zero strategy, international shipping giants confirmed that crews are required to face a seven-week quarantine. Chinese seafarers returning to the country are mandated to quarantine. In addition, vessels are prohibited from refreshing their crews and bringing on new members for two weeks. Shipowners and managers have had to re-route ships….
Ships Continue to Flood the LA Ports
December 6, 2021
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LOS ANGELES—Cargo ships waited in record numbers to offload goods at the nation’s busiest ports this week as officials again delayed the start of a new system that would fine shipping companies for storing containers at the busy terminals. An influx of 96 container ships were waiting in line to offload at the Los Angeles…
Ships Continue to Flood the Los Angeles Ports
December 6, 2021
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LOS ANGELES—Cargo ships waited in record numbers to offload goods at the nation’s busiest ports this week as officials again delayed the start of a new system that would fine shipping companies for storing containers at the busy terminals. An influx of 96 container ships were waiting in line to offload at the Los Angeles…
Government Won’t Solve Inflation, Supply Chain Crisis—But the Market Will
Commentary The price of a gallon of gas is going up. Store shelves are empty. Consumers are waiting longer for merchandise to be shipped that they ordered online. Americans across the country are experiencing what inflation is like. The last time we went through a cycle like this was more than 40 years ago, when…
15 Republican Governors Launch ‘Operation Open Road’ to Fix Supply Chain Snarl
November 23, 2021
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Fifteen Republican governors, led by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, have launched “Operation Open Road,” an initiative that seeks to ease America’s supply chain crunch by a range of state and federal measures, including calling on the Biden administration to remove “burdensome” regulations on the trucking industry and suspend President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for private…
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