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Is It Time to Concentrate on Climate Adaptation?

Enterra Insights

Millions of people in Asia, in cities like Mumbai, Beijing, and Tokyo, would be uprooted and have to move inland. we’d watch places like Houston, San Francisco, and New York City — not to mention the entire state of Florida — slowly disappear into the sea.” … Dakar, Accra, Jeddah — gone. And in the U.S.,

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U.S. Freight Logistics Industry Recession Continues with Some Hopeful Signs

Supply Chain Matters

According to the April report commentary , the industry remains hopeful in new signs indicating that retailers and manufacturers are getting closer to working off the overall glut of inventories that resulted in 2022. Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as depicted by the J.P. remains unclear.

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

McLean purchases a steamship and a railroad terminal company. to Houston, where the shipping containers are loaded onto trucks. The beginning of the Asia-Advanced Economies trade boom. Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports. Western Europe selects container standards for rail, also intended for ship and truck.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

McLean purchases a steamship and a railroad terminal company. to Houston, where the shipping containers are loaded onto trucks. The beginning of the Asia-Advanced Economies trade boom. Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports. Western Europe selects container standards for rail, also intended for ship and truck.

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Perspectives on the Global Trade Environment: A Panel Discussion

NC State SCRC

The goal is to create redundant sources based on supplier-specific and country-of-origin, to ensure that each product category has redundancy as a form of insurance on the supply chain. Andrew Partis shared his views from ThermoFisher, a global contrat manufacturer for the pharmaceutical industry.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 7 – 13)

Logistics Viewpoints

But one source mentioned the unlucky nature of the number “13” is a Norse myth about 12 gods having a dinner party in Valhalla. to test autonomous truck runs from Houston to Oklahoma City with a safety driver aboard. Daily market prices to move cargo from Asia to the U.S. Kodiak, Aurora Innovation Inc.