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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. The re-routing trend has accelerated in recent months as many ships have lined up along the West Coast waiting for ports to resume operations.

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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. The re-routing trend has accelerated in recent months as many ships have lined up along the West Coast waiting for ports to resume operations.

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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: Personal Mover Transports Employees around BMW Plant.

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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. Going public. The move towards public terminals is making ports more resilient. This post was written by MIT CTL Deputy Director James B.

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The Future Is Now for Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

Concerns have been raised about possible widespread rail service failures this fall much like we saw in 2013-14. States and cities like Seattle are severely restricting use of driver contractors in port drayage and car services like Uber and Grubhub. Couriers Under Threat. Package delivery companies are prime targets as well.