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This Week in Logistics News (August 5 – 11)

Logistics Viewpoints

At the beginning of this week, I took a “boy’s trip” with my son and my dad to Ohio to check out the Football Hall of Fame and the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. In a statement on the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada website late Friday, president Rob Ashton confirmed the result. Long live rock!

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

Intel is investing over $20 billion to build two new chip factories in Ohio. The American Trucking Association (ATA) data shows that the industry could be short by over 140,000 drivers by 2026, increasing the driver shortage to over 160,000 drivers by 2030. (Deloitte Global). Wall Street Journal ). McKinsey ). Trucking.org ).

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50 expert tips on logistics planning and strategy

6 River Systems

. “As for your internal systems, real-time inventory management helps you manage your fulfillment warehouses. After all, one of the more difficult aspects of managing warehouses is what to do with excess inventory, so you need to reduce it as much as possible.”