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Mexico sees solid manufacturing growth, courtesy of nearshoring

Resilinc

Mexico is seeing strong growth in manufacturing. demand and a revival of the auto sector, investors are moving in and banks are getting ready to finance new projects,” in Mexico, reported Bloomberg in April. “Due Mexico’s largest categories of exports to the U.S. market and secure redundant sources of supply. Due to strong U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

Design: make all primary consumer packaging recyclable by 2025 and use 50 percent recycled material in our packaging by 2030. Three former SpaceX engineers have founded Parallel Systems , a firm specializing in autonomous battery-powered electric rail vehicles for shipping and freight.

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Risk Management in Global Ocean Context

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The areas that will be deliberated in future articles are ocean shipping market landscape, freight procurement, reliability & visibility and the competitive landscape. We can observe this quite clearly in the growth experienced in countries like Vietnam, India as well as Hungary and Mexico. What does this mean to the shippers?

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This Week in Logistics News (May 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

Evolving packaging: which involves making packaging 100 percent designed for recycling by 2025. The United States and Mexico are pushing forward with an aggressive investment into the international ports of entry along the nearly 2,000 miles of their shared boundary. Mexico has pledged $1.5 That said, U.S. has pledged $3.4

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Declining Demand Creates Dour Outlook for Logistics Industry

Intelligent Audit

Ultimately, FedEx hopes to lower costs by $4 billion beginning in the fiscal year 2025. . As freight volumes continue to fall and demand softens, ocean carriers are working to increase blank sailings. The nation’s largest rail union, SMART-TD, has rejected a tentative agreement with freight railroads.

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All the Supply Chain News You Need to Know 4.8 - 4.12

Freight Plus

Wait times at the US-Mexico border have skyrocketed to wait times in excess of five hours this week. Aldi pushes to use only sustainable packaging by 2025. – And we hope you brought your cookies for this week's, "Where's my freight?!". Wait times at southern boarder up 500%.

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All the Supply Chain News You Need to Know 4.8 - 4.12

Freight Plus

Wait times at the US-Mexico border have skyrocketed to wait times in excess of five hours this week. Aldi pushes to use only sustainable packaging by 2025. – And we hope you brought your cookies for this week's, "Where's my freight?!". Wait times at southern boarder up 500%.