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Bridging Disruption: Control Tower Helps Customers Navigate the Tragedy in Baltimore

BlueYonder

Who can forget watching the shocking footage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore? When a 948-foot-long cargo ship called Dali crashed into the bridge in the early morning hours of March 26, the costs were high. It closed the Port of Baltimore to ship traffic. million vehicles in 2023.

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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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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. WTO cites China, U.S., refugee costs as risks to trade growth (Reuters).

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When The Wheels Fall Off

Supply Chain Shaman

For the prior ten years, as a city dweller in Philadelphia and Baltimore, I walked everywhere. Historically, most supply chain investments were for engines–bright guys built fabulous optimization code and plonked the software onto a relational database. Today, there are forty-five large ships off of the port of Long Beach.