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ICON 2022 Kickoff: Special Interest Group Meetings

BlueYonder

Whether attending in Orlando, Florida, or from the comfort of home, eventgoers will hear about the latest innovations from Blue Yonder’s experts, customers and partners during compelling keynotes, interactive track sessions and community-building Special Interest Group meetings. Read more about their conversation here.

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Identity Theft, Trucking Style

Talking Logistics

I first wrote about this problem almost three years ago, when I commented about a story in the New York Times about thieves that stole six truckloads of tomatoes and one truckload of cucumbers from Florida growers, along with a truckload of frozen meat, by setting up a bogus trucking company and deceiving a broker.

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Emergency Freight: What Harvey Tells Us About Irma

DAT Solutions

Big weather events, like Super Storm Sandy in 2012 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005, usually affect freight movements in three stages: Before the storm , if it is predicted in advance, shippers hustle to move freight out of the way of the impending onslaught. Millions are still without power in Florida. and dozens more in the Caribbean.

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Consumers Demand Supply Chain Accountability Down to the Last Straw

Material Handling & Logistics

The California Transparency Supply Chains Act, for instance, which was enacted in 2012, requires companies to disclose information regarding their efforts to eradicate human trafficking and slavery within their supply chains. There were plastic straw bans in individual municipalities in Florida, New Jersey and California.

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Disaster Logistics: The Nature of Disaster Recovery Planning

GlobalTranz

During Irma, for instance, people were rushing to the pumps and nearly every gas station in the Florida was running low on gasoline. An explosion and major fire at a chemical plant in Mari, Germany, in 2012 had sweeping repercussions for the global market. What about the debris and damage to public property?

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Hurricane Season Brings New Risks to Pandemic-stressed Supply Chain Chains

Enterra Insights

The third named storm, Cristobal, soaked areas from southeast Louisiana to north Florida and south Georgia, then became only the fourth tropical storm to track into Wisconsin or its adjacent Lake Michigan waters in more than 100 years of records. June 1st is the official start of hurricane season. ”[2].

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Who said supply chains are boring?: Disney 'Imagineers' a Supply.

Supply Chains Rock

Thursday, July 12, 2012. Walt Disney Parks and Resorts recently announced it will be importing almost all of its merchandise through Jaxport , the state-of-the-art logistics hub in Jacksonville, Florida, instead of through the previous port in Savannah, Georgia. Still not excited, well visit often and eventually you will be.