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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

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Just-in-time (JIT) inventory management became crucial to the nation’s meteoritic industrial growth, including Toyota’s eclipsing North American and European automakers as the world’s largest automakers for their time. billion metric tons as of 2017. A world transformed. In 1956, manually loading a ship cost $5.86

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This Week in Logistics News (May 28 – June 3)

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The Memorial Day weekend typically sees an uptick in cargo theft, with an average from 2017 to 2021 of 29 events per year over the holiday weekend. The US’s ban on the import of Russian oil after the invasion of Ukraine has put a squeeze on diesel. s CargoNet.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

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Now of course, companies must map out the potential impacts of the Russia Ukraine war. Russia Attacks Ukraine. Russia shells Ukraine. Russia had massed some 150,000 troops along Ukraine’s borders, according to US estimates based on satellite imagery. Ukraine does not have the military might to stop the invasion.