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The Big Sigh

Supply Chain Shaman

I hopped on the plane in Baltimore on my way to Atlanta last week. Registrations are pouring in for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 6th-8th in Washington, DC. Always late, I squeezed past a middle-aged man wearing a black mask in the aisle seat and promptly fell asleep nodding my head on the window ledge.

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Parcel Volumes Decline But Revenue Increases for FedEx and UPS

Intelligent Audit

For example, AxleHire recently announced it had expanded into Washington DC and Baltimore, giving it a presence in three of the five most populous East Coast cities. In addition, many are expanding service areas. AxleHire now has last-mile operations in 16 of the top 25 metro areas in the U.S. What about Amazon?

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Will Warehouses Eventually Go Dark?

Enterra Insights

David Sparkman, head of David Sparkman Consulting, reports, “Empty stores and shopping centers are increasingly being converted into warehouse and e-commerce distribution centers, according to the global industrial real estate firm CBRE, which examined in detail two dozen such projects ranging from southern California to Baltimore.”[2]

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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. The 30 th SCRC meeting kicked off today with a theme on “Transportation Strategy in an Infrastructure Constrained Environment”. It is also happening at border crossings such as Mexico.

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When the Heavy Hand of Government is Not a Burden

MIT Supply Chain

What is to stop individuals from using other gateways in the region such as Baltimore or Washington DC to enter the country? Such hastily introduced local measures are ultimately counterproductive, and don’t work anyway.

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Walmart Rolling Out Four High-Tech FCs

Multichannel Merchant

Successive FCs will open next spring in McCordsville, IN, near Indianapolis; in Lancaster, TX near Dallas in the fall of 2023; and in Greencastle, PA, about 100 miles northwest of Baltimore and Washington, DC sometime in 2024.