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Gridlock at US Ports is Reshaping the Supply Chain

RFgen

ports to make up the current backlog of ships and container inventory, the standoff’s impact is expected to be more far-reaching than initially thought. cargo has flowed through the country’s West Coast ports until recently. By comparison, the vacancy rate at the end of 2013 was more than 9 percent.

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Gridlock at US Ports is Reshaping the Supply Chain

RFgen

ports to make up the current backlog of ships and container inventory, the standoff’s impact is expected to be more far-reaching than initially thought. cargo has flowed through the country’s West Coast ports until recently. By comparison, the vacancy rate at the end of 2013 was more than 9 percent.

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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. It will allow for the automation of more complex warehousing tasks, such as unloading shipping containers and picking packets or individual e-commerce orders. Content Summary: Autonomous Boats Could Ferry Cargo in Busy Cities.

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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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