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Hurricane season 2024: how to prepare your supply chain

Resilinc

Flooded or closed roadways, bridges, and overpasses can delay freight, rail, and even air cargo. 3 Higher freight rates Hurricanes can reduce truck capacity as carriers divert resources to aid relief efforts. For example, during Hurricane Harvey in 2017, the total trucking freight load fell by 10%.

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

Talking Logistics

More than a year into a freight capacity crisis that shows little sign of weakening, it’s time for all parties involved in logistics and freight transportation to meet this issue head on. Freight Capacity Crisis: How Did We Get Here So Quickly? That all changed with the summer of 2017.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 4-8, 2017)

Talking Logistics

LL4T1DCure Team Jersey 2017. Hurricanes Disrupt Freight Sector, Send Rates Soaring (WSJ – sub. 7-Eleven builds logistics business with store, warehouse network (ABS-CBN News). Global air freight rises again in July: IATA (Reuters). How far is 100 miles? It’s like going from Brooklyn, NY to Philadelphia, PA.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 27 – December 1, 2017)

Talking Logistics

It’s December 1, the beginning of the end of 2017. UPS To Launch eBike In Fort Lauderdale, Florida. and Two Important Questions About the Future of Freight Moves. In-depot / in-warehouse management. How did we get here so fast? Shipping Networks (WSJ – sub. Tesla Truck gets DHL order as shippers test Semi (Reuters).

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This Week in Logistics News (October 8-12, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Alexa Heads to the Warehouse (WSJ – sub. Transplace Acquires Yusen Logistics’ Intermodal & Freight Brokerage Group. Freight trucking startup Shipwell gets a $10 million boost (TechCrunch). Warehouse Space Growing Tighter on Rising E-Commerce Demands (WSJ – sub. Alexa in the Warehouse.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- October 25 2023

Supply Chain Matters

The logistics orchestration platform provider was co-founded by Kirchner along with Chief Product Officer Rajan Patel in 2017. According to the announcement , Ryder will acquire 15 operations across Florida, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah , and California.

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Truck Capacity Shortage: The Past, Present and Future

Talking Logistics

From the last half of 2017 through today and beyond, a slew of market forces, some predictable and some unexpected, have combined to create a very real truck capacity shortage in the United States. economy in 2017 and so far in 2018, manufacturers have been producing more goods than usual and requiring more freight to be shipped.

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