Supply chain radar: The box lines Super League – risking world trade?
At the ‘intersection of greed, opportunism and sustainable trade’.
It’s really quiet out there ahead of the Q3 ’20 earnings season that opens with 3PL JB Hunt for the US trucking market in about a fortnight, just as stock markets are at their frothiest ever, although volatility (VIX) looks steady below 30 where it has hovered since 9 September.
So it was naturally tempting in the past few hours to call my boss – read: wife – and gloriously announce a full week off… yet the mighty ocean carriers still ...
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