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Managing Logistics for The World’s Largest Company with Gary Sostack

The Logistics of Logistics

Then, after a short spell in New Orleans, I moved to Houston to work with supply chain in oil and gas. At one point while working for a 3PL, I did a lot of work in retail. [04:37] If you live in Houston, you know who it is. Then, we buy and ship it to get oil out of the ground. It’s Saudi Aramco. It had 2,500 pieces.

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Protect Your Shipments From Cargo Theft

Zipline Logistics

Cargo Theft Increases in the United States Cities seeing a spike in freight theft include Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, Savannah, Newark, New Jersey, Memphis, and Chicago. Protect Your Cargo From Theft The good news is that a specialized 3PL like Zipline Logistics can spot fraud a mile away.

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The State of Freight with Anne Reinke

The Logistics of Logistics

from Rice University in Houston, and a J.D. TIA provides leadership and direction for the 3PL industry and professionals to advance professional standards and business practices, to include the overall image and credibility of the profession and its ultimate contribution to society. She received a B.A.

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The Story Continues…. Let’s Don’t Sugar Coat the Real Issue

Supply Chain Shaman

The people on the ground–my contacts in the 3PL, freight forwarding and transportation industry–know that the labor strife is only a part of the larger story. As a country, I think that we need to rethink supply chain flows for chassis, drayage and the unloading of larger ships. It takes 2 to 3 days to unload a ship.

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Today’s Freight Capacity Crisis: Where Do We Go from Here?

Talking Logistics

Looking back on how we arrived at this point, many experts point to the 2017 hurricane season, specifically with Hurricane Harvey hitting the Houston area in late August 2017, followed by Hurricane Irma hitting Florida just a few weeks later. There are No Crystal Balls.

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 Energy Crisis Looms Globally and Nationally Threatening to Upend Economies, Businesses and Supply Chains

American Global Logistics

According to Ed Hirs, a University of Houston energy economics professor, the 25 days of supply would only be an issue if consumers panic. Prices for Amazon Prime rose 17% to account for higher shipping prices. That includes ground and air shipping, with price increases reflected in expedited shipping costs.

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Is Your Warehouse the New Bottleneck?

Locus Robotics

When you hear the word “bottleneck”, you probably think of the 109 container ships that were backed up off the Southern California coast. But that didn’t mean the end of the bottleneck when the ships left the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Houston, We Have a Storage Problem. How did warehouses become the bottleneck?