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Gridlock at US Ports is Reshaping the Supply Chain

RFgen

cargo has flowed through the country’s West Coast ports until recently. A recent Journal of Commerce survey found more than 65 percent of shippers surveyed said they planned to ship less cargo through U.S. By comparison, the vacancy rate at the end of 2013 was more than 9 percent. Roughly half of all U.S.

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Gridlock at US Ports is Reshaping the Supply Chain

RFgen

cargo has flowed through the country’s West Coast ports until recently. A recent Journal of Commerce survey found more than 65 percent of shippers surveyed said they planned to ship less cargo through U.S. By comparison, the vacancy rate at the end of 2013 was more than 9 percent. Roughly half of all U.S.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

Supply Chain Innovators of 2013 : paperless food chain, VLMs, cold chain fleet management, and more. In markets with high land values, such as New York City, Seattle and the San Francisco Bay Area, multistory distribution centers are emerging. Content Summary: Autonomous Boats Could Ferry Cargo in Busy Cities. Media Type.

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Building Port Resilience

MIT Supply Chain

Photo: Port of Seattle by Don Wilson. jrice@mit.edu , and first published in the August 19th, 2013 issue of the Journal of Commerce. This means that larger operations have the potential to more efficiently utilize cargo handling capacity because they are less likely to be stuck with small pieces of unused terminal space.

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