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Amazon News Cycle Accelerates With a Purpose

Supply Chain Matters

The news cycle focused on retail platform and web infrastructure services provider Amazon has accelerated these past few weeks. Since the JFK8 successful vote, the ALU has since managed to garner worker interest for a unionization election at an Albany New York facility, the fourth Amazon facility this year.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 4 – 10)

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state of New York. The February reading in the New York Fed’s Global Supply Chain Pressure Index was -0.26, reaching negative territory for the first time since August 2019. Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Oregon also are moving to decarbonize drayage. state of Maryland. in December 2021.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 2 – 8)

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I saw an article recently about a cargo flight headed to Belgium from New York that had to turn around mid-flight. The pilot called air traffic control in Boston and reported: “We don’t have a problem as of flying-wise but we need to return, return back to New York. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Where are all the N95 Masks? A Supply Chain Dilemma

NC State SCRC

The shortage of N95 masks seems to be a big mystery, but several recent articles in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal explore the case of the missing masks. The Federal Government is seeking to prioritize distribution of masks to California, New York, and Washington, where the epidemic is rampant.