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Supply Chain by the Numbers for July 18, 2025

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” 3000+ That is the number of new cars that we being transported on the Morning Midas, a cargo ship headed to Mexico and which sank in the North Pacific on Monday, nearly three weeks after a fiery blaze broke out on board. Q Feedback No Feedback on this article yet.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for June 26, 2025

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New National Motor Freight Traffic Association Cargo Theft Framework Released

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See More Bad News on US Cargo Theft.) Click here to send us your comments In response, the National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA) has just released a framework it says can help shippers, carriers and brokers fight back against the growing and increasingly sophisticated threat of digitally enabled cargo theft.

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Supply Chain by the Numbers for June 6, 2025

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Smoke was first seen coming from a deck of the vessel, whose cargo included about 800 EVs, the ship’s manager, Zodiac Maritime, said in a statement. The fire aboard the Morning Midas occurred about 300 miles south of Adak Island in Alaska, according to the US Coast Guard. Q Feedback No Feedback on this article yet.

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FedEx Founder Fred Smith Dies at 80

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Studying economics at Yale, Smith’s 1965 term paper pitched the idea of creating a logistics company that would carry only cargo, and do so for a package’s end-to-end journet, such that a package could be delivered almost anywhere in the US overnight. Click here to send us your comments The story is well known. per sqft per month? $40+

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Maritime CO2 Emissions are Rising Sharply, and Cannot All be Blamed on Diversions Around South Africa

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There is one easy answer: a large number of cargo ships continues to avoid sailing in the Red Sea in and out of the Suez Canal, to avoid attacks from so-called Houthi rebels in South Yemen. Tom Miralia CEO, Distribution Technology Posted on: Feb, 26 2020 Multistory Bronx DC $700 million and 1.2 What is going on? per sqft per month? $40+

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Regional Air Cargo Start Up TuffAir Sues Amazon over Alleged Trade Secret Theft

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After securing access to TuffAir’s materials, Amazon abruptly ceased communications, only to unveil a remarkably similar regional air cargo model within months, based on the same technical, operational and strategic elements TuffAir had disclosed,” the company alleged in its legal filing. No comment as yet on the suit from Amazon.