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This Week in Logistics News (October 14-18, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Free-Shipping Offers Abound This Holiday Season, According To Shop.Org. BMW to Mazda Imports Slowed as Strike Shuts Baltimore Port ( Bloomberg ). As the holiday season heats up, some interesting findings related to free shipping and mobile commerce from Shop.org’s eHoliday survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics.

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Transportation Strategy in a Constrained Infrastructure: 30th SCRC Meeting Kicks Off Today

Supply Chain View from the Field

This is a theme that was discussed a year ago at a conference in DC on Transportation Infrastructure, over coffee with William Lucas from Caterpillar. Infrastructure growth is a major issue for companies who ship a lot, especially those like CAT who ship heavy permit loads from the ports.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 30 – April 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

Crews opened a second temporary channel on Tuesday allowing a limited amount of marine traffic to bypass the wreckage of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge , which had blocked the vital port’s main shipping channel since its destruction one week ago. And now on to this week’s logistics news. percent of total in-store sales.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 28 – October 2, 2015)

Talking Logistics

There was plenty of learning and networking at the CSCMP Annual Conference this week, which I’ll write about in a future post. It will be available soon in New York, Baltimore, Miami, Dallas, Austin, Chicago, Indianapolis, Atlanta and Portland. You can work as much or as little as you want. Amazon Flex is available now in Seattle.