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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

The port handles about 11 million tons of cargo per year, including automobiles, containers, coal, and farm products. According to a widely cited framework by Christopher and Peck from “Building the Resilient Supply Chain” (2004), supply chain resilience consists of four dimensions: robustness, agility, redundancy, and flexibility.

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Industry Transformation: Advanced Manufacturing and Digitalisation of Supply Chain-Logistics

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

PSA has developed and upgraded CALISTA ,a Digital Platform that will seamlessly integrate Physical Cargo Flows, Regulatory Trade- related Information Flows as well as Financial Flows. Mr Singh was the Chief Executive of SATS Airport Services from 1998 to 2004. TRANSFORMATION OF SUPPLY CHAIN & LOGISTICS VIA DIGITALISATION.

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Managing End-to-End Supply Chain Security Like A Pro

Supply Chain Opz

Customs and Border Protection with focus on the international cargoes bound for the United States. 4) 24-Hour Rule: under this rule, sea carrier is required to transmit descriptions of the cargo bound for the United States. 2) FAST Program : Free and Secure Trade is also a program initiated by U.S. Supply Chain Security. Government.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 27 – April 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

As a 17-year periodical, these cicadas have lived underground in wingless nymph form since 2004, about a foot or two down, feeding on sap from tree roots. For example, asset-based carrier Cargo Transporters ran across-the-board pay raises but were still having trouble attracting drivers. When they do emerge, there can be as many as 1.5

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Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking: US CBP suspends GTX.

Global Trade Management

Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking. bound maritime cargo containers be limited to high-risk trade lanes. CBP officials said this additional information would allow the agency to be more precise in identifying risks and to thus conduct fewer and better-targeted cargo inspections. arviem real-time cargo monitoring.

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Putting the WoW! Into Service Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

In early 2004, they noticed that customer service was the biggest problem. 3PL will automatically upgrade the service from "ground" to "next day delivery" if cargoes volume of next day delivery in particular day is low (in order to drive the economy of scale). One of the most notable case study is from a company called Zappos.com.

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Applying History’s Lessons to New Resiliency Plans

CH Robinson Transportfolio

However, we saw similar supply chain outages associated with the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Japan’s earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. Superstorm Sandy was uniquely catastrophic. All these events caused major supply chain disruptions to some of the biggest brands in the world.