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Hurricane Harvey - Effects, Forecasts, and Operational Best Practices

Elementum

Harvey is not the first lethal and damaging flood to hit Houston: Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 killed 41 and caused $9 billion in damage, as well as flooding in 2016 that shut down the city for days. Houston’s expansive sprawl lacks drainage systems and has ample bodies of water that are easily exacerbated by heavy rains.

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Big Data: A Garage Full of Old Newspapers

Supply Chain Movement

Such a scenario immediately makes me think of films such as A Beautiful Mind (2001) and Conspiracy Theory (1997) which respectively featured a schizophrenic maths genius – played by Russell Crowe – and a plot-obsessed amateur journalist – played by Mel Gibson – both of whom collect newspaper clippings and unearth correlations from them.

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

to Houston, where the shipping containers are loaded onto trucks. Did You Know That … The first of 14 residential shipping container complexes now built in the UK is completed in 2001. A patent was filed in 1962 for using shipping containers as touring exhibition booths. 0 TEUs 0 meters long. Significance. 0 TEUs 0 meters long.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

to Houston, where the shipping containers are loaded onto trucks. The first of 14 residential shipping container complexes now built in the UK is completed in 2001. . . A patent was filed in 1962 for using shipping containers as touring exhibition booths. . Significance. Did You Know That …. Significance.

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Podcast: Digital Solutions Innovator Philip Black

Requis

When I moved to Houston I did work with a company that was trying to create digital twins before the concept formally existed. This was back in 2001 when I started in Houston. 2001 was before the Internet of things (IoT) was a term. I’m a chemical engineer.