Nearshoring

Nearly 75% of companies plan to reduce their share of sourcing from China, with the U.S. and Mexico appearing to be the big winners according to an AlixPartners survey.

From weather patterns and cultures, to trade and regulations, each country is a different operating environment.

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently spoke with Doug Waggoner, CEO of Chicago-based 3PL Echo Global Logistics. Waggoner offered up insights on various logistics and supply chain trends and themes, including: freight economic conditions, near shoring, and brokerages, among others.

While nearshoring can be a risk mitigation tool, it’s important for businesses to consider the differences between countries, including cultural, trade and even weather patterns.

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Accenture survey finds 85% of companies plan to manufacture and sell most of their products in the same region in 2026.

How big is the nearshoring trend? An Accenture report says the number of global companies nearshoring product manufacturing will double in the next 3 years.

Thanks to a trio of bills passed in the past few years, investment in U.S. manufacturing is at all-time highs, and that means the economy could be poised to take off again.

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently caught up with Erin Van Zeeland, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and Senior Vice President and General Manager of Logistics, for Green Bay, Wisc.-based truckload, intermodal and logistics services provider Schneider National. Van Zeeland addressed various topics, including: Peak Season, intermodal, logistics technology, and near shoring among others.

With an eye on bolstering United States-Mexico cross-border trade activity, Minneapolis, Minn.-based global logistics services provider and freight forwarder C.H. Robinson said today it has opened up a new facility at Texas-based Port of Laredo. The company planned and built out this facility over the last 18 months.

AlixPartners’ report highlights importance of taking a total costs and risks of ownership approach to supply chains.

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor, for Logistics Management and Peerless Media, interviews Steve Huntley, President and Owner, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Resource Logistics Group, a logistics advisory firm working with shippers and 3PLs.

In this podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor, for Logistics Management and Peerless Media, interviews Steve Huntley, President and Owner, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Resource Logistics Group, a logistics advisory firm working with shippers and 3PLs.

A recently-issued report from San Francisco-based freight forwarding and customs brokerage services provider Flexport examined the inroads being made on nearshoring initiatives in Mexico through the lens of container throughput at the landlocked Laredo, Texas port, which sits between the United States and Mexico.

This report comes at a time, when United States-bound import levels are down, due, in large part to higher-than-normal inventory levels, reduced consumer demand, and still-stingy inflation levels. But, as the report observes, much of the supply chain normalization is viewed through the lens of where things stand now compared to where things stood prior to the onset of the pandemic.