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09.15.22

<https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/transportation-market-update-q3-2022-air-sea-freight>

Supply Chain Management

##### Sep 15, 2022

### [TRANSPORTATION MARKET UPDATE Q3-2022 | AIR & SEA FREIGHT](https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/transportation-market-update-q3-2022-air-sea-freight)

UPDATE 9/15/2022 AIR FREIGHT While a tremor of air peak season is likely in the days and weeks to come, the situation between China and the United States, in diplomatic cold, weighs. The cancellation...

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03.10.22

<https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/transportation-market-update-q1-2022-air-sea-freight>

Supply Chain Management

##### Mar 10, 2022

### [TRANSPORTATION MARKET UPDATE Q1-2022 | AIR & SEA FREIGHT](https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/transportation-market-update-q1-2022-air-sea-freight)

UPDATE 3/14 The situation has unfortunately changed over the past weekend as far as the Covid pandemic goes in China. As the spread of the Omicron worsens in China, particularly in Shanghai and...

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01.04.22

<https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/ningbo-port-disruptions>

Supply Chain Management

##### Jan 4, 2022

### [NINGBO PORT DISRUPTIONS](https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/ningbo-port-disruptions)

Here is the last update of the transportation market: with China continuing its COVID-zero policy, a Coronavirus outbreak in the Zhejiang province has led to increased protocols onto Ningbo, the...

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09.25.21

<https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/air-and-sea-freight-market-update-q3>

Supply Chain Management

##### Sep 25, 2021

### [AIR AND SEA FREIGHT MARKET UPDATE - Q3](https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/air-and-sea-freight-market-update-q3)

Soaring container shipping prices are expected to reach their limits during the summer. But everything suggests that freight rates will stabilize at high levels.

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07.27.21

<https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/how-to-whoose-the-right-partner-in-electronic-components-shortage-era>

Supply Chain Management

##### Jul 27, 2021

### [How to choose the right partner in electronic components shortage era](https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/how-to-whoose-the-right-partner-in-electronic-components-shortage-era)

At present, the electronics world is in an unprecedented situation: components of all types are in short supply and prices are rising fast. If you’re in a manufacturing business that relies on...

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07.20.21

<https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/why-choosing-asteelflash-usi-to-deal-with-component-shortages>

Supply Chain Management

##### Jul 20, 2021

### [Asteelflash-USI: Why choosing us as your partner and how we can deal with component shortages?](https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/why-choosing-asteelflash-usi-to-deal-with-component-shortages)

For any business that incorporates electronic assemblies into its products, choosing the right EMS partner is a difficult and critical decision, even at the best of times. And in the electronics...

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07.12.21

<https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/6-steps-to-deal-with-current-component-shortage>

Supply Chain Management

##### Jul 12, 2021

### [6 steps to deal with the current component shortage](https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/6-steps-to-deal-with-current-component-shortage)

Not even the best of supply chain managers can completely insulate their businesses from the impact of the current world shortage of electronic components. The simple truth is that there are not...

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07.06.21

<https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/the-component-supply-crisis>

Supply Chain Management

##### Jul 6, 2021

### [Market trends, health crisis: what impact on your supply chain?](https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/the-component-supply-crisis)

For supply chain managers in the electronics sector, one topic is currently dominating their thoughts and their work: the global shortage of components. But how has this come about, what is the...

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06.25.21

<https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/air-and-sea-freight-market-update-2021>

Supply Chain Management

##### Jun 25, 2021

### [AIR AND SEA FREIGHT MARKET UPDATE - Q2](https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/air-and-sea-freight-market-update-2021)

The situation is getting worse in the maritime transportation market

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05.25.21

<https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/the-fully-bespoke-solution-that-asteelflash-offers-to-its-customers>

Supply Chain Management

##### May 25, 2021

### [The fully bespoke solution that Asteelflash offers to its customers](https://blog.asteelflash.com/blog/the-fully-bespoke-solution-that-asteelflash-offers-to-its-customers)

Important attributes of Asteelflash are our flexibility, production capacity, reliable delivery scheduling and ability to improve processes, as is evidenced by this customer case study where, in...

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