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The Changing Face of Manufacturing: How US Manufacturers are Looking Homeward

GlobalTranz

Tomorrow, we will do more of the top areas or trends for manufacturers to look out for in 2015. With the rise in global crude oil production and relative political stability in the major oil producing nations, particularly Iraq and Libya, the price of crude oil has fallen from above $100 a barrel to around $50 a barrel in just a year.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

Well, my big audacious prediction for 2015 did not come true. Terrorism : The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, coupled with the ongoing instability in Syria and Iraq and the spread of ISIS, have raised the risk for terrorism-related supply chain disruptions in 2016. Insights from Kenco Customer Summit 2015.

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Memorial Day 2022

Enterra Insights

Government fought efforts by veterans to link their serious diseases to Agent Orange exposure. Roberts reports, “Thanks to former Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD) who sponsored the Agent Orange Act of 1991, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), [as of] 2015, had paid $24 billion in disability compensation to 1.3 For years, the U.S.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

August 2015 saw the opening of the New Suez Canal, which cost over $8 billion and increased the depth to 24 meters (78 feet). The canal could only support unidirectional traffic prior to its extension in 2015, with crossings arranged into convoys of roughly 10 to 15 ships. meters in 2008 as opposed to 22.5 meters in 2001.

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