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September 12, 2025

Supply Chain by the Numbers for September 12, 2025

Ocean Containers Topple into the Sea. Inflation sill a Worry. Tariff Revenue Soars. PepsiCo stays Committed to Green Trucks


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$30 Billion
That is how much the US collected in tariffs in August, according to a release by the US Treasury Department this week. That set a new monthly record, and was up 296% from August 2024. For the first 11 months of the fiscal year, tariff revenue totals $172 billion. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said during a Cabinet meeting in August he expects tariff revenue to grow month-over-month through the end of the year, potentially heading toward a $500 billion annual pace.

60+

That’s how many ocean container shipping containers fell from a cargo ship, many of them into the ocean, on Tuesday morning in the Port of Long Beach. According to a statement from the port, dozens of containers fell from the vessel Mississippi just before 9 a.m. while it was berthed at the Pier G container terminal. Officials said that after the ship came into port and crews started to release the straps holding the containers down, they started to fall into the water, sparking the domino effect. "We are still investigating the cause and why the containers fell off the ship. Some fell into the water, some are on the terminal property, and we're just working to stabilize everything," said Art Marroquin with the Port of Long Beach.



2.9%
That was the annualized rate of the rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in August as announced this week by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics this week. The reading marked an acceleration from the 2.7% increase seen in July, with price hikes driving up the cost of Americans’ most basic needs. The latest CPI provided further evidence that some costs from President Donald Trump’s policies, such as sweeping immigration reform and steep tariffs, are slowly being passed along to consumers, economist Dean Baker, co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, told CNN on Thursday.



100+
That is how many battery-electric heavy duty semi-trucks food giant PepsiCo has in service. That according to Adam Buttgenbach, the director of fleet engineering and sustainability at PepsiCo, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published this week. In addition, the company in total operates more than 1750 electric trucks and vans in its total fleet. That despite a number of moves by the Trump administration to end incentives and mandates to go electric. Buttgenbach also noted that “We use battery-electric trucks for last-mile distribution and for regional distribution. From a range and charge-speed perspective, last-mile distribution, which can cover about 75 miles per day, is a much easier duty cycle to electrify with a wide variety of manufacturers and vehicles.

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