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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

In the early morning hours of April 26, at approximately 1:35am, a cargo ship leaving Baltimore Harbor struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, triggering a catastrophic collapse of the 1.6-mile-long The bridge is part of the heavily traveled Interstate 695 linking Baltimore to Washington, D.C. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Starting this week, customers across the US will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages , with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St.

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The Backorder, April 10 2024

Unleashed

Baltimore bridge disaster adds new stress to global supply chains. That’s why AOV is an essential metric to improve. US manufacturing activity expands for first time since 2022. The latest ISM Manufacturing PMI report registered an unexpectedly high 50.3% in March – up 2.5% from February.

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 11.5-11.9

Freight Plus

“Instead of having conversations about what the detention rates are going to be, I’d rather focus on not having detention at all,” Rob Roberson, director of logistics at steelmaker Nucor, said at the JOC Inland Distribution Conference. We’ve used our transportation management system to make load times a critical metric for us.”.

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear. ” —Translation from the Greek by Ludwig Edelstein. Today, nine out of ten supply chains are stuck.