Test Your 2022 Supply Chain Knowledge
It's the end of 2022 and there's been a heck of a lot of supply chain news, how much can you remember?
"Thank God I'm ashore" said one captain of Maersk's new methanol vessel. But what was it about the new ship's design that he was concerned about?
The location of the bridge?
Its size?
The sound and impact of waves?
The distance between the bridge and engine room?
Following the invasion of Ukraine, Volga-Dnepr's AirBridgeCargo removed all its aircraft from Europe. How many 747Fs did this include?
14
15
16
17
China's Shenzhen imposed a Covid-19 lockdown. Commenting on this, Vespucci Maritime's Lars Jensen warned readers than when Yantian was shut the disruptive impact on cargo flows was twice the size of the blockage of the Suez Canal. True or false?
True
False
Maersk Air Cargo started operations in April, where will its airfreight hub be?
Pecs-Pogany
Cologne
Billund
Liege
Shanghai's unshipped cargo was set to swamp the market in the summer. How many teu was it estimated to amount to?
260,000
300,000
340,000
380,000
Secret talks were being held between which company and Etihad Cargo?
TikTok
ABC
CMA CGM
Amazon Air
European workers embraced strike action in July, but how many port workers walked out in Germany for 48hrs in the middle of the month?
11,000
12,000
13,000
14,000
Spot rates continued to fall in the summer. And for the US west coast that drop was pronounced. By what percentage did it drop in the first week of the month?
8%
9%
10%
11%
As if there wasn't enough disrupting trade, what was the name of the typhoon that forced the ports of Busan, Ningbo, and Shanghai to close in September?
Chanthu
Hinnamnor
Muifa
Noru
China's zero-Covid policy again took effect, forcing the closure of which major freight hubs?
Shanghai, Qingdao and Ningbo
Tianjin, Qingdao, and Ningbo
Tianjin, Shanghai, and Qingdao
Tianjin, Shanghai, and Ningbo
What caused box traffic at South Korea's two busiest container ports, Busan and Gwangyang, to fall by 40%?
25,000 truckers blocking the port
A BTS Concert
A typhoon
A ransomware attack
DB's Supervisory Board agreed to prep for a sale of 100% of DB Schenker, what does Loadstar Premium value Schenker at
€22bn
€25bn
€28bn
€30bn
You got {number correct}/{number of questions} correct answers