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Breakbulk Americas with Jeff Tucker

The Logistics of Logistics

Breakbulk Americas , is the region’s largest trade event for the project cargo and breakbulk industry. In the podcast interview, Joe and Jeff discuss Tucker Company Worldwide and the Breakbulk Americas conference, the region’s largest trade event for the project cargo and breakbulk industry professionals. Breakbulk 2021 Event Stats.

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Hurricane season 2024: how to prepare your supply chain

Resilinc

a sharp decline in growth compared to 36% from 2021 to 2022. Flooded or closed roadways, bridges, and overpasses can delay freight, rail, and even air cargo. The storm damaged over 4,500 manufacturing facilities, warehouses, and distribution centers across industries, including manufacturing, agriculture, aerospace, and automotive.

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The next supply chain frontier: space

Resilinc

Humankind’s quest to visit Mars will—if all goes well—get a major boost in 2021 as three different spacecrafts are on schedule to arrive at the Red Planet: NASA’s Perseverance; China’s Tianwen-1; and the United Arab Emirates’ Hope.

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Is Hyperloop the Next Great Supply Chain Technology?

Kinaxis

But it’s gained new prominence with some engineering advances, as well as the imprimatur of Musk, who’s gained tons of press for successfully disrupting the online payment, aerospace , and automotive industries. The Hyperloop project is also seeing substantial private sector investment.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 5 – 11)

Logistics Viewpoints

The trend is borne out in the 2021 State of North America Manufacturing Report produced annually by research and publishing firm Thomasnet.com. A dispute between two unions over which workers get certain jobs at a cargo-handling terminal at the Port of Seattle is holding up labor talks between West Coast dockworkers and their employers.