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Hurricane Harvey - Effects, Forecasts, and Operational Best Practices

Elementum

Harvey is not the first lethal and damaging flood to hit Houston: Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 killed 41 and caused $9 billion in damage, as well as flooding in 2016 that shut down the city for days. Houston’s expansive sprawl lacks drainage systems and has ample bodies of water that are easily exacerbated by heavy rains.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 28 – September 1, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Port Houston Container Terminals to Resume Operations Friday (WSJ – sub. The rains and winds of Tropical Storm Harvey are over, but the impact of the storm on the residents of Houston and the surrounding areas will continue for some time. million in the second quarter of 2016. Descartes Acquires MacroPoint.

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Capacity Crunch Factors: What Causes a Capacity Crunch?

GlobalTranz

Since the 2016 election, the stock market has experienced continuous growth, and if history is an indicator of anything, the stock market is likely to continue growing under the current administration. Demand increases, and available capacity decreases. Amazon May Cause a Ripple-Effect in the Capacity Crunch Pond.

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Warehouses Are Full as Holiday Season Commences

Material Handling & Logistics

That compares with 2016’s 3.1% from the same period in 2016. over 2016 and that this year’s holiday sales will grow between 3.6 The total for 2017 is expected to come to 20 million TEUs, topping last year’s previous record of 18.8 million TEUs by 6.3%. increase over 2015. The first half of 2017 totaled 9.7 million TEUs, up 7.5%

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Provoking the Industry to Move Past Incrementalism

Supply Chain Shaman

Houston, We Have a Problem. In February 2016, it was $29.69. Houston, we have a problem. In five companies that I have worked with in the past quarter, each degraded the forecast (using Forecast Value Add methodology) by 10-18%. They believed that the system was driving improvement. In supply chain, we have a problem.

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Retail Imports Hit a Record High. Again

Material Handling & Logistics

over August 2016. That compares with 2016’s 3.1% from the same period in 2016. over 2016 and that this year’s holiday sales will grow between 3.6% The volume was the highest recorded since NRF began tracking imports in 2000, topping the previous record of 1.78 million TEUs set just one month earlier in July.

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Today’s Freight Capacity Crisis: Where Do We Go from Here?

Talking Logistics

In fact, in November 2016, a survey of shippers published by the Journal of Commerce found that shippers didn’t “appear to believe capacity will tighten considerably in advance of a federal electronic logging mandate for all interstate truck drivers scheduled to take effect next December 1.” That all changed with the summer of 2017.

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