03 August, 2008

tell me how this is bad

Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization

Yes, it sucks to have to pay a lot for gasoline, but are we even paying the full price, yet? Anyway, now that the energy required to transport goods is chomping away at margins, manufacturers need to re-think their supply chains. While I hate to see prices go up, this is just the constraint we needed in our economy to convince companies to actually design efficiencies into their systems.

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