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Baltimore Bridge Collapse- A Reminder of Supply Chain Risk

Supply Chain Matters

A day has passed after a container ship lost power and crashed into a support pylon of Baltimore, Maryland’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early morning hours of March 26. miles to partially collapse into the Patapsco River that leads to the Port of Baltimore. The collision caused this massive bridge spanning 1.6 All rights reserved.

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FreightTech Investment Environment with John Larkin

The Logistics of Logistics

Systems Engineering Consultant with Day & Zimmermann, Inc., In addition, he is Vice Chairman of Crown Diesel, and a member of The Board of Directors for CRST International, eNow Energy, Cub Ventures (CDLife), Novapath Supply Chain Systems & Rygen Technologies, and Phoenix Intermodal. Larkin is a CFA charter holder.

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Procurement Technology: An Update from Spend Matters in Baltimore

NC State SCRC

Today I travelled to Baltimore to attend the ISM/Spend matters Global Procurement Tech Summit. “We believe that cognitive computing is going to change industries and the way work gets done –and we can deploy systems that learn and become smarter through time and perform the jobs we do.

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Logistics Industry Outlook with John Larkin

The Logistics of Logistics

Systems Engineering Consultant with Day & Zimmermann, Inc., In addition, he is Vice Chairman of Crown Diesel, and a member of The Board of Directors for CRST International, eNow Energy, Cub Ventures (CDLife), Novapath Supply Chain Systems & Rygen Technologies, and Phoenix Intermodal. Larkin is a CFA charter holder.

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Vaccines are the Utility Needed for the Global Economy

NC State SCRC

Federal officials and outside vaccine experts say that Pfizer and Moderna shots are easy to modify and manufacture on a large scale, because the mRNA technology they use means very few changes need to be made to the original vaccine before plugging the formula back into the same manufacturing system.

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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. mile-long span. An estimated 11.5

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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]