Remove 2018 Remove Cargo Remove Transportation
article thumbnail

Southern California Wildfires and Windstorm 

Exiger Perspectives

Californias role as a vital nexus for transportation, technology, and industrial machinery places manufacturing supply chains at significant risk from the ongoing wildfires. Power outages, evacuations, and closures of key transportation routes have disrupted production and distribution networks in the Southern California region and beyond.

article thumbnail

This Week in Supply Chain Tech- May 15 2025

Supply Chain Matters

including its global supply chain sustainability software offering for beneficial cargo owners (BCOs) , enterprise supply chain leaders and logistics service providers (LSPs). According to the announcement, The necessities of scaling led them to build Teslas end-to-end supply chain orchestration system from scratch.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What Shippers and Brands Need to Know Amid Tariff Whiplash

Stord

Shippers are scrambling to front-load orders during this 90-day window, an effort thats already driving spot rates higher across ocean freight, drayage, and over-the-road transportation. Steel/Aluminum, Auto Parts, and Legacy China Tariffs from 2018 and 2019 are still valid and in effect. ports can halt cargo for days or weeks.

article thumbnail

Managing Supply Chains Through Tariff Confusion and Chaos

Cathy Roberson

Tariffs as a Threat During the first Trump administration, tariffs were implemented on products valued at about $380 billion in 2018 and 2019, according to the Tax Foundation. transportation supply chain, the largest end market in North America, and specifically the automotive market. could represent $1.5

article thumbnail

New National Motor Freight Traffic Association Cargo Theft Framework Released

Supply Chain Digest

See More Bad News on US Cargo Theft.) Click here to send us your comments In response, the National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA) has just released a framework it says can help shippers, carriers and brokers fight back against the growing and increasingly sophisticated threat of digitally enabled cargo theft.

Cargo 41
article thumbnail

Italy’s Ferrero to Buy U.S. Cereal Icon Kellogg

Supply Chain Brain

confectionary business in 2018. Featured Product Popular Stories End to De Minimis Slows Flow of Air Cargo from China to U.S. For several years, Ferrero has been seeking to grow its business in North America, making a series of acquisitions, including Nestlé’s U.S. Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.

article thumbnail

FedEx Founder Fred Smith Dies at 80

Supply Chain Digest

Studying economics at Yale, Smith’s 1965 term paper pitched the idea of creating a logistics company that would carry only cargo, and do so for a package’s end-to-end journet, such that a package could be delivered almost anywhere in the US overnight. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article!