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Columbus Day 2018

Enterra Insights

Columbus Day is a U.S. federal holiday commemorating the date when Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Americas. Because Columbus and colonization remain controversial subjects, Columbus Day is not as widely celebrated as other U.S. Columbus Day has been observed on the second Monday of October since 1971.

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America Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos

Operations and Supply Chain Management

February 17, 2022, 12:01 AM EST. On the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, where the remains of a 200-year-old canal built to connect Cleveland with Cincinnati snake around new warehouse parks, a modern tributary of the global economy widens a little more with each planeload of goods that roars down its runways. Photographer: Ryan Dickinson/U.S.

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What’s the deal with the semiconductor shortage?

NC State SCRC

About 91% of the contract chip production capacity is within Asia. Intel recently unveiled a plan to set up its own $20 billion foundry in Columbus. These brands don’t actually own the fabrication plants, they outsource them to what are called foundries. That’s starting to change.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2019

Talking Logistics

although some are in Europe, South America, and Asia. Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) Conference , April 28 – May 1, Columbus, OH. Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supply chain and logistics events to attend in the coming year.

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Asian imports turn up the heat for vans on the West Coast

DAT Solutions

This trend repeats every year, as consumer goods from Asia arrive at the ports and begin the eastward journey to regional distribution centers throughout the country. Prices between Columbus, OH, and Buffalo, NY, fell in both directions. Columbus to Buffalo fell 18¢ to land at $3.45/mile.

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Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2021

Enterra Insights

Children schooled in the middle of last century grew up reciting the phrase, “In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” Her poem begins with the famous stanza about Columbus setting sail, then adds historical facts as she knew them. Columbus sailed the ocean blue. No, not quite.

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US Semiconductor Fab Investments Make Headlines and Concerns

Supply Chain Matters

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has specifically indicated that the plans for Columbus, Ohio complex include being: “ t he largest AI chip manufacturing site in the world.” Noted in interviews with sources is a realization that facility construction costs are four to five times higher than what they would be Asia. sourced capability.