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This Week in Logistics News (February 10 – 16)

Logistics Viewpoints

New York City officials plan to turn six waterfront locations into maritime shipping hubs as a way to handle the booming number of e-commerce deliveries across the five boroughs. It comes after Japanese shipping giant Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd. The plan would save more than 92 million miles of truck travel and 8.3 The bosses of A.P.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

Some of these workers come from Mexico daily to jobs in places like Arizona and California for the production of leafy greens at this time of year. Imports are tumbling at the nation’s busiest container port complex even as the backup of ships waiting to unload breaks records.

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Birds of a Feather…

Tailwind

We get these from Russia, and then we send another group of snow birds in their RVs down to Arizona, California and Florida to ‘winter’ there. Nearby, tankers and container ships travel along the Georgia Strait to our local container port. They are literally our very own ‘Canadian Snowbirds’. (We Sometimes they were flying East.

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Hurricane Irma's Chemical Fallout Could Be Worse than Harvey's

Material Handling & Logistics

The incident at the 43-year-old plant owned by Arkema SA of Paris, France, provided some of Harvey’s most dramatic pictures -- and a fortunate anticlimax. 7, but will halt shipping if the Coast Guard forecasts gale-force winds of at least 39 miles per hour hitting within the 24 hours to come. The port was operating on Sept.