INDUSTRY NEWS
Trade Balance Update, November 7, 2023
A cargo ship near the Port of Montreal. Canada’s merchandise trade surplus widened from $949 million in August to $2.0 billion in September according to numbers released on November 7 by Statistics Canada.1 The increase comes as exports climbed 2.7% [...]
January Trade Balance Update
In the first month of 2021, Canada posted a surprising trade surplus totalling $1.4B, the first since May [...]
Creating Value With Automation in Logistics
A prediction: in the next decade, automation and artificial intelligence will come to occupy a critical role in [...]
Trade Balance Update & Analysis: February 5th 2021
StatCan reports Canada’s annual trade balance will end in a deficit, capping a year no economist could have [...]
The Post Pandemic Food Supply Chain- What we are Learning!
Of all the editorializing on the impacts of the pandemic on our world, one thing is certain: things [...]
What is Supply Chain Management?
Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a more ubiquitous process than one might think. From Software as a Service [...]
Examining the Use of AI in Logistics
At Canadian Alliance, we see first hand the cost- and time-saving benefits of implementing expansive Artificial Intelligence (AI) [...]
Trade Balance Update & Analysis: December 4th 2020
This morning, Statistics Canada released the monthly trade balance update for October 2020 indicating that Canada’s international merchandise [...]
Sustainability in Consumer Chemical Supply Chains
Every industry, when left to steady growth and its own devices, is likely to wind up inefficient—consumer chemicals [...]