Supply Chain Research

A new transatlantic logistics alliance, BeerQx, aims to reduce the complexity of shipping beers from the U.K. to the U.S. This comes as the U.S. consumption of British beers has declined to 1% of U.S. imports from 3% in 2009, likely reflecting the growth of the American craft beer movement. At the same time the U.K. increased to 2% of U.S. exports from 1%. There is still a beer deficit though – the U.S. imported 3x more than it exported to the U.K. while imports from Britain jumped 119% in October.