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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

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This year, with the LA Rams being Super Bowl champs, Good360 said it will ship thousands of “unsellable” Bengals-branded hats, T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, COVID-19 masks, and scarves to struggling people in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. And now on this week’s logistics news.

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The reality of green energy: “green metal” supply chains won’t be able to keep up

NC State SCRC

GM has committed to 30 new electric vehicles by 2025. There are other risks as well: logistics in these regions (especially Africa and Chile). Road density in Africa is among the world’s lowest, and only 800,000 km of the 2.8M If Africa’s logistics simply rose to the global average, it would boost flows by 12%.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 22 – 28)

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Supermarkets were forced to ration a range of fruit and vegetables earlier this year due to poor weather in Europe and Africa leading to shortages. A steep, across-the-board decline in imported cargo , exports and empty containers during March dropped volumes at several major ports to levels not seen since before the COVID-19 pandemic.