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Baltimore Bridge Collapse- A Reminder of Supply Chain Risk

Supply Chain Matters

A day has passed after a container ship lost power and crashed into a support pylon of Baltimore, Maryland’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early morning hours of March 26. miles to partially collapse into the Patapsco River that leads to the Port of Baltimore. Then there are the implications for various industry supply chains.

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National Supply Chain Day #AMA

BlueYonder

Today is National Supply Chain Day when we celebrate all things supply chain! The day was first declared in 2020 during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic when supply chains were thrust onto the world scene. The post National Supply Chain Day #AMA appeared first on Supply Chain Nation.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

In the early morning hours of April 26, at approximately 1:35am, a cargo ship leaving Baltimore Harbor struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, triggering a catastrophic collapse of the 1.6-mile-long The bridge is part of the heavily traveled Interstate 695 linking Baltimore to Washington, D.C. mile-long span. An estimated 11.5

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This Week in Logistics News (July 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

Starting this week, customers across the US will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages , with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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28-year-old Supply Chain Major Living in London on $227,000/year

Operations and Supply Chain Management

This 28-year-old Supply Chain major lives on $227,000 a year in London—here’s how she spends her money. But she never imagined that within six months of moving to London from Baltimore, Maryland, in September 2019, she would find herself living and working abroad amid a pandemic. to London, England in September 2019.

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Will Warehouses Eventually Go Dark?

Enterra Insights

David Sparkman, head of David Sparkman Consulting, reports, “Empty stores and shopping centers are increasingly being converted into warehouse and e-commerce distribution centers, according to the global industrial real estate firm CBRE, which examined in detail two dozen such projects ranging from southern California to Baltimore.”[2]

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Parcel Volumes Decline But Revenue Increases for FedEx and UPS

Intelligent Audit

For example, AxleHire recently announced it had expanded into Washington DC and Baltimore, giving it a presence in three of the five most populous East Coast cities. billion is undoubtedly an eye-opener, but it noted that labor and physical space were no longer the bottlenecks they were throughout 2020 and 2021. What about Amazon?