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Supply
Chain by the Numbers: Week of December 19, 2008 |
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-December 11, 2008
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The Supply Chain and Logistics Numbers Worth Knowing This Week: Fed-Ex Ships Out!; On-Line Holiday Sales Flatten, On-Line Retailers Rowing Out to Meet the Ship with Free Shipping; Peak Import Volume Bottoms Out
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78%
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The percentage of on-line retailers that are offering free shipping for the 2008 Christmas season, though most have conditions, such as a minimum purchase level.
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1.36 Million
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The number of TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) entering US ports in this year’s peak import month of October; that’s down from the 2007 peak, the all-time record, of 1.48 million TEU in September, 2007.
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The level of on-line holiday sales through Dec. 14, according to the researchers at comScor. That’s flat with 2007 levels through the same period, after many years of strong year-on-year, on-line sales growth.
