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Logistics of Hurricane Harvey's Humanitarian Aid

Elementum

The logistics industry is one of the greatly effected. While the logistics industry has been effected by Hurricane Harvey, several companies have offered their services to humanitarian organizations. 33 counties in Texas are under federal disaster declaration. Donations are coming in and many have volunteered to help.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

At the beginning of the year, the global chip shortage had become so dire that large industrial companies were taking scarce chips out of washing machines to plug them into industrial modules. The companies launched their pilot program about a year ago to autonomously transport goods between Dallas and Houston. The largest U.S.

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LTL Carrier Profile: Old Dominion

The Logistics of Logistics

With the deregulation of the trucking industry in the 1980s, Old Dominion extended its service area into Florida, Tennessee and California and also started serving the major markets of Chicago and Dallas. Old Dominion ’s service area includes all of the United States including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, U.S.