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America Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Planes, Cranes, and Barges: How America Is Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos. Rickenbacker International Airport was a bustling hub for air freight well before the pandemic—a day’s truck drive to half of the U.S. International freight being unloaded at Rickenbacker airport. a digital freight forwarder. Businessweek.

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COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict Global Supply Chain News Capsule March 23 2022

Supply Chain Matters

Canadian Pacific is the sixth-largest North America freight railway, and in December 2021 completed an agreement to acquire U.S. based Kansas City Southern , pending full regulatory approvals which is expected sometime this year. Surface Transportation Board on the merger with Kansas City Southern. .

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This Week in Logistics News (April 17 – 23)

Logistics Viewpoints

The response from America was overwhelmingly negative, and the new formula was seen as a major failure. billion to one-up rival’s bid for Kansas City Southern railway. This is likely to be an ongoing problem as the pace of container shipping trade continues to increase. Save Mart kicks off pilot of shelf-scanning robots.

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Spot market demand heats up out West

DAT Solutions

DAT load boards provide the largest and most trusted digital freight marketplace in the trucking industry, with more than 256 million loads and trucks posted annually, plus insights into current spot market and contract rates based on $60 billion in real transactions. Oil-related freight movements from Houston are definitely in a lull.

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Investing in regional supply chains

Resilinc

Central and South America have the young workforce that can staff the ecosystem of cost-effective suppliers U.S. Shipping by land can be less costly and more efficient than the ocean shipping from Asian countries on which the U.S. America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). supply chains. now depends.

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Webinar Recap: The Case for a Pan-American Manufacturing Ecosystem

Resilinc

To create more secure, resilient, and cost-efficient supply chains for the future, firms and government agencies should invest to expand manufacturing and logistics infrastructure in Latin America. “We In Mexico and Central America, the median age is more than 10 years younger than in the U.S. manufacturing supply chain there.”.