Supply Chain Research

Q3’21 Outlook: The fallout from underinvestment in logistics

July 5, 2021

The outlook for the logistics sector in the rest of 2021 will be defined by the reduced rate of investment of the past three years. Many ports are still operating at close to peak-season levels, reducing their ability to debottleneck before the forthcoming peak in early Q4’21. U.S. seaborne im... Read more →

Supply chains never sleep – Five lessons from the first five years of Panjiva Research

May 5, 2021

Panjiva Research was founded as part of the then-independent Panjiva Inc. in May 2016 with the first research being published in July that year. Five years on, please excuse our indulgence as we highlight five lessons we’ve learned since then. Our research has relied upon Panjiva’s exceptional... Read more →

EU beats U.K. as global trade recovery keeps pressure on logistics networks

April 21, 2021

The EU’s external merchandise trade activity dipped 3.3% lower year over year in February, marking a 14th straight decline. Waning trade with the U.K. resulting from Brexit is a significant contributor with a 22.0% slide in bilateral trade. The EU’s exporters are still doing “better” than thei... Read more →

Panjiva Insights: The fallout from COVID-19 and long-term strategy plans

September 3, 2020

Panjiva held a poll of our customers in August to investigate the fall-out from COVID-19 on supply chains, covering firms across the exporting, importing and logistics segments. The impact of COVID-19 has been “slight” for 55% of respondents while 36% have seen a “heavy” impact with the logist... Read more →

2020 Outlook: It’s About Time – The Future for Global Supply Chains

January 27, 2020

Panjiva’s 2020 Outlook series takes a look back at the past 10 years before considering the prospects for the coming year and beyond. U.S. trade policy will remain in flux ahead of the elections in November. There’s little time to implement the phase 1 trade deal with China while a trade war w... Read more →

2020 Outlook: Seeing Clearly, Reaching Further – Supply Chain Technology

January 27, 2020

The old ways of running supply chains – including paper bills of lading and manual tracking – are rapidly becoming obsolete. New technologies have benefits including increased visibility into supply chains while improved efficiency in operations can cut costs as well as reducing greenhouse gas... Read more →

2018 Review: 12 Events That Shaped Global Supply Chains

December 20, 2018

A year of turmoil in global trade policy, the logistics sector and industrial supply chains provided fodder for over 1,600 Panjiva research articles in 2018. Boiling those down to one per month based on readership revealed 12 significant events in 5 broad themes. (1) The most significant was t... Read more →

10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in April 2018

May 3, 2018

The deteriorating state of trade relations between the U.S. and China featured in seven of the top 10 articles read by Panjiva’s subscribers in April. President Trump’s section 301 review suggested duties on $46.4 billion of products across 1,333 categories (led by TVs and cars). That drew imm... Read more →

10 Most Read Panjiva Research Reports in February 2018

March 2, 2018

President Trump’s decision on steel and aluminum tariffs will likely prove to be the biggest global supply chain news of March, but the groundwork was set in February. The most-read research for the month focused on our deep-dive analysis of the Commerce Department’s initial recommendations as... Read more →

Xi Gives COSCO Cover for Further Bids as Deals Reach $13 billion in 3Q

October 24, 2017

The five year National Congress of the Communist Party in China focussed more on leadership than economic policies, as expected. President Xi Jinping did refer however to strengthening and reform of state-owned enterprises to create “world-class” firms. For COSCO Shipping (partially controlled... Read more →

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