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Winter Weather Alert: First Nor’easter of 2021

GlobalTranz

FreightWaves anticipates the heavy snowfall and strong winds will delay freight flows in the northeast throughout the week, impacting key freight markets like Harrisburg, PA, Allentown, PA, and Elizabeth, NJ. The post Winter Weather Alert: First Nor’easter of 2021 appeared first on GlobalTranz Enterprises, LLC. Source: CNN.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 27 – February 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

UPS is seeking alternative strategies for its truck brokerage business, which has seen sales plummet amid a freight recession marked by declining rates and over capacity. More than $728 million is on the way to communities around the nation to bolster intermodal freight infrastructure. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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This Week in Logistics News (April15 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

Metropolitan Bostonians take a lot of pride in the marathon as a major part of Patriots Day celebrations across Massachusetts. Seagate sold the drives to Huawei between August 2020 and September 2021 despite an August 2020 rule that restricted sales of certain foreign items made with US technology to the company.

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Guest blog: With the Truck Driver Shortage, How Many More Drivers will be Enough?

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Robinson’s own technology and data from the largest network in the freight industry, help our customers stay on top of the trends that influence their supply chains. for Q2 2021, relative to Q2 2018. With these caveats in mind, plotted below are the CES data for employment at general freight, long-distance truckload and LTL firms.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Initiatives planned to reduce lost containers include the MARIN Top Tier project, which was founded in 2021 by several member lines and a range of maritime stakeholders to perform research on concrete data about the causes of containers overboard and how to prevent further incidents.

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Associated Grocers of New England Selects HIMPACT

Herlitz Inventory Management

In September 2021, Associated Grocers of New England signed with Herlitz Inventory Management to improve upon its existing purchasing system and to further advance its goal of serving the needs of independent retail grocers of every store size and format.

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We Only Have One Planet: Supply Chains Can Help Save It

Enterra Insights

“Food, construction, fashion, fast-moving consumer goods, electronics, automotive, professional services and freight account for more than half of all global greenhouse gas emissions. 2] Staff, “ The Day of Reckoning for Sustainability Claims ,” Logility Blog, 2 March 2021. [3] 6] Leonard, op.

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