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The West Coast Bottleneck with Brian Rice

The Logistics of Logistics

China, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Germany are the top 5 exporters to the USA. The US imported the most goods from Canada until 2007 when China replaced our neighbor to the north. In 2019, these five countries supplied 48% of the $2.5 trillion in U.S. imports of goods.

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The Better Goal: More Fuel Efficient Trucks or Using Fewer Trucks?

Talking Logistics

Over the past five years, our transportation department in Mexico has demonstrated continued improvement in the area of efficiency. miles out of its network from 2007-2010 and had increased its CWT per truck from 382 in FY 2007 to 415 in FY 2010, an 8.6 Put differently, in FY 2007, Del Monte left 11.2 percent improvement.

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LTL Carrier Profile: Con-Way Freight

The Logistics of Logistics

The truckload division operates in the United States, Canada and Mexico. In 2007, Con-Way bought CFI and merged it into Con-Way’s existing truckload addition. Con-Way Truckload has over 2,600 tractors and more than 8,000 trailers. Con-Way Truckload has over 3,500 employees. Con-Way Inc. The 2012 results were 5.5% Con-Way Inc.

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How Carrier Technology Affects Your Supply Chain

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Robinson in 2007. I’m based in San Diego, CA, which means I help a lot of customers move their freight across the Mexico border. Over the years, I’ve noticed many of my customers—both large and small—have the misconception that carriers, especially those based in Mexico, aren’t using technology. I started with C.H.

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And I thought last year’s Top 25 Supply Chain was a surprise

Kinaxis

55 th President of Mexico. Alan Greenspan. 13 th Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Bill Clinton. 42 nd President of the United States. Colin Powell. 65 th US Secretary of State, Four Star General. Bill Bradley. US Senator New Jersey. Vincente Fox. Michael Eisner. CEO Walt Disney. T Boone Pickens. BP Capital Mgmt. Gartner acquires AMR Research.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 26 – September 1)

Logistics Viewpoints

And when Mark Goodson and Bill Todman began shopping a modernized revival of The Price Is Right, Bob Barker joined on as the host, a role he would hold until his retirement in 2007. In May, Instacart said it was leaning into the generative AI boom with Ask Instacart, a search tool that aims to answer customers’ grocery shopping questions.

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A Real World Humanitarian Logistics Model

MIT Supply Chain

He worked with researchers from Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, Malaga University, Spain, and Complutense University at Madrid, Spain, to develop the model. A case study based on a catastrophic flood that struck the city of Villahermosa, Mexico in 2007 provides a real-world application of the model.