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Increasing Speed and Efficiency of Vaccine Distribution During Uncertainty

AIMMS

In the summer months, they also run around 500 flights to transport children to summer camps like Camp Kindle (a camp for kids affected by HIV/AIDS), Champ Camp (a camp for burn survivors) and The Painted Turtle (a camp for children with serious medical conditions), among others. I picked her up for transport to the Bay Area.

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The Importance of Transparency in Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

The article cites Dr. Darren Prokop, of the University of Anchorage Alaska, who explains supply chain visibility involves seeing “a particular activity with access to information at selected nodes.” ”[3]. ”[4] A lack of transparency always holds the possibility of reputational risks.

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What Are General Rate Increases in Shipping & What Should Enterprises Know?

Intelligent Audit

In modern freight transportation services, GRI stands for General Rate Increase. On the other side of the coin is the well-known freight transport surcharge. including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the U.S. In turn, wages must increase, and carriers are inevitably spending more money to complete transport. and Canada.

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Getting Christmas Goods on Time: FedEx and UPS Roll Out Holiday Shipping Deadlines

Intelligent Audit

Furthermore, these dates are for domestic transportation only. Even nearby locations, such as shipping from San Antonio, TX to Amarillo, TX by ground, have the same deadlines, but the delivery date shifts slightly to December 23, 2021. to Canada Ground Northbound December 14 – for U.S. to Canada Ground Southbound December 15 – for U.S.

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Matrix Commerce is Coming Will You Be Ready?

Supply Chain Network

The complexity really starts when you look at the distribution of the products and how you can actually calculate and track the carbon footprint of a product sent to a store around the corner from the plant versus sending the same product to a store in Alaska.

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Logistics of Hurricane Harvey's Humanitarian Aid

Elementum

A rapid-response humanitarian relief organization, Airlink is said to be working with major airline companies, namely United Airlines, Alaska Airlines and American Airlines, to relieve workers and volunteers. The supplies were offloaded at the airport and were distributed to several areas.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

Starting next week, Amazon will start actively recruiting existing small businesses in 23 states including Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, North Dakota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, South Dakota, and Washington.