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No Congestion Issues at the Port of Virginia

Kanban Logistics

and Long Beach, are experiencing severe congestion due to record volumes as US businesses replenish inventories that were depleted after COVID-related manufacturing shutdowns. The Port of Virginia is a notable exception. What’s new at the Port of Virginia? the Port of Virginia is as efficient as it gets.

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Warehousing News Roundup: February 18, 2019

Stord

Import fees on American cars are a problem for many companies, but Tesla’s lack of manufacturing capacity in China makes it unable to shift production to within the country to mitigate penalties. Tesla is scrambling to move Model 3 sedans to China , anticipating imminent tariffs on American cars that would make its product more expensive.

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Can Australian Manufacturing be Brought Back Home from China?

Logistics Bureau

The short answer is that it is indeed possible to re-shore manufacturing but it will take a change in government policies as well as sizeable state incentives to private enterprise to turn the ship around. Can Australian Manufacturing be Brought Back Home from China? percent in 2019. Only time will tell. Economic Benefits.

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Top Supply Chain and Logistics Articles of 2019

PINC

Matt Yearling’s articles ranked on both Logistics Viewpoints’ and Talking Logistics’ most-read article lists for 2019. . For 2019, he holds the distinction of being one of the top-read authors for both Logistics Viewpoints and Talking Logistics. The post Top Supply Chain and Logistics Articles of 2019 appeared first on PINC.

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What is Supply Chain Compliance and Why is it Important?

AB&R

It’s one of our top six trends we’re following in 2019, and we have decades of experience in this area. In addition, several agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) require unique device identifiers (UDI) usually in the form of barcodes to contain information such as manufactured date and lot number to provide traceability.

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Freight Volume Rebounds to Pre-Pandemic Levels

Zipline Logistics

Volume increases started mid-last week and have steadily climbed since then, exceeding 2019 levels. According to an article published in FreightWaves , “ Tender volumes are racing to the upside and are tracking positive year-over-year in May, albeit off of a depressed 2019 comparison. Virginia? ? . West Virginia ? .

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This Week in Logistics News (January 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

The issue here is that the new vaccines need an absurd amount of labor and materials to be manufactured, especially considering that a vaccine has never been made at this speed or scale before. On the East Coast, the Port of Virginia in November reported a 23.3 percent increase over the 599,985 containers moved in the year-ago period.