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This Week in Logistics News (May 14 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

Autonomous cargo ship completes 500-mile voyage. In our last piece of autonomous vehicle news, the “world’s first” autonomous commercial cargo ship has successfully completed a near-500-mile voyage in the congested waters of Tokyo Bay, traveling without human intervention for 99 percent of the trip.

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

Supply Chain Matters

based Kansas City Southern , pending full regulatory approvals which is expected sometime this year. Surface Transportation Board on the merger with Kansas City Southern. . American Shipper reported last week that the number of container ships calling on major U.S. East Coast Ports the Likely Next Test.

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America Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Freighters and reconfigured passenger jets fly in from Asia and the Middle East, operated by the cargo units of Cathay Pacific Airways, Emirates, Korean Air, Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines, and several other carriers. Share of Global Shipping Vessels Arriving on Time. to Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. from 2020 and a 5.4% in the U.K.

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Billion Dollar Port Plan Brings Mega-Retailer To Mexico

Elementum

The route is part of the the Kansas City Southern (KCS) network and is one of a few new options carriers like Maersk (the company Walmart contracts) have started to provide as an alternative to the West Coast port congestion. Before the mega-retailer started shipping goods through Lazaro Cardenas, the KCS had fallen on hard times.

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

Resilinc

In the decades since, Linton and his teams at IBM, LG, Flex and other companies have driven billions in annual procurement to China and other Asian countries, helping to create the Asia-centric manufacturing supply chains of today. Now, Linton believes those supply chains must change. Proximity = lower costs and lower carbon.