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This Week in Logistics News (April15 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now for this week’s logistics news: Walmart Adds Truck Powered by Compressed Natural Gas to its Transportation Fleet CMA CGM offers $5.5 The vehicle will make its inaugural trip from Indiana to California, where it will be featured at the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo. CMA CGM is offering 5 billion euros ($5.48

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The Post-Pandemic Supply Chain with Peter Tirschwell

The Logistics of Logistics

In his role Peter leads The Journal of Commerce, the historic New York City maritime newspaper founded in 1827, today a team of specialized business journalists focused on the end-to-end international shipping supply chain including shipping, ports, airfreight, trucking, rail and home delivery, addressed to the needs of shippers.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 9-13, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Bigger Container Ships Pose Bigger Risks (WSJ – sub. Chainalytics Introduces FMIQ Monthly Benchmarking Index. December 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Transportation Department pushes tough oil train standards – sources (Reuters). Launches New Trade Challenge Against China (WSJ – sub.

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Managing Supply Chain Disruptions in the Middle East

Locus

Transportation: Trade routes blockage – Congestion at ports. million barrels of oil a day go through the canal, according to shipping journal Lloyd’s. This issue has affected shipping goods from Asia to Europe and the Middle East. Major supply chain risks in the Middle East. That’s about 7% of all seaborne oil.

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Examples of How Supplier Quality Management System Implementations Pay Off

GlobalTranz

As the world is more distributed and players within the supply chain in transportation, manufacturing, and distribution are varied, applying a supplier quality management system in your business may allow you to stay more strategic and collaborative. We deal with our suppliers of transportation on a daily basis: our select carrier partners.

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High Freight Prices Are Burdening Shipper Logistics Operations

Turvo

The cost of transporting a container by ship has tripled since extreme confinement was lifted. times more than the low of $800 in mid-April last year when shipping companies began to stop ships. times more than the low of $800 in mid-April last year when shipping companies began to stop ships.

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

Manufacturing sites have been rationalized in terms of, “we don’t need five factories in this country, we only need three, then two, then we don’t need them at all, we’ll move them to China”. It’s a lot more forward focused than our traditional view, in which we’re steering the ship by looking over our shoulder at the wake.