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This Week in Logistics News (April 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

UPS is bringing new safety training to Louisville and other sites across the country. In 2023, UPS will add 20 more driving simulators, including one in Louisville. The made-to-fit boxes, along with other efforts to reduce the use of cardboard, have cut the average weight of packaging used per shipment by 38 percent since 2015.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

The words “avian flu” often trigger alarm bells for the majority of the population, as was evident with the avian flu outbreaks in the US that led to the culling of hundreds of thousands of chickens and turkeys in 2015 and 2017.

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Which States are Making the Grade in Logistics?

Material Handling & Logistics

Kentucky offers the UPS World Port in Louisville, DHL Americas hub in Northern Kentucky and several large FedEx ground hubs throughout Kentucky. The state invested $52 million in its waterway infrastructure from 2010 to 2015. ?The workspace://SpacesStore/6f2e884b-eed4-42f2-9bfb-2a6e5766b2f0. The state received an A. Media Type.

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Everyone Is Sick of the 3 Worst Bottlenecks in America

GTG Technology Group

The junction of I-65 and I-71 in Louisville, Kentucky, follows the Fort Lee bottleneck. https://www.thetrucker.com/News/Stories/2015/11/24/Americasworstbottlenecksrankedbytruckinghighwayusers.aspx. Taking third place is the Interchange at I-95 and State Rd. 4 in Fort Lee, NJ, which came in 1 st last year. Sources: [link].

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The Mind-Boggling Complexities of Food Distribution (Why Optimization is Critical)

Talking Logistics

For example, here’s a description from a 2001 profile of Kroger’s food supply chain published by Louisville Business First : The frozen food portion of the order is assembled at 6:30 a.m. and loaded in the front compartment, or nose, of a multi-temperature trailer where the temperature is 20 degrees below zero.