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Top 3 Benefits of Intermodal Shipping

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

Often, services begin with a container or cargo moved by truck to a ship, then back to a truck to finish the process. When cargo is moved via the ocean rather than just by a truck, it significantly cuts transportation, gas, and routine service costs. Most companies switching to modernized services do it to save money.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- October 10 2023

Supply Chain Matters

In its reporting, Bloomberg indicated that Amazon has long practiced a strategy of taking stakes in business areas deemed a priority including a grocery chain, cargo airlines, EV powered parcel vans and others. with more than 75 locations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina , and South Carolina.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 8 – 14)

Logistics Viewpoints

More than 70 percent of Toyota Motor Manufacturing , Alabama’s power will soon be generated by the sun. Today, Huntsville Utilities, Toyota Alabama and Toyota Tsusho America, Inc. And now on to this week’s logistics news. TAI) announced a power purchase agreement (PPA) to support a 168-acre, $49 million solar project.

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Hurricane Harvey Updates

Elementum

This has alerted shipping lines and prompted some to entertain rerouting cargo to New Orleans and Alabama, and even as far away as the Bahamas and Mexico. Another option being explored is for carriers to unload cargo at other ports in order to take in lighter loads upon entering Houston. in Arlington and Toyota Motor Corp.

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