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Lingering Port Congestion with Paul Brashier

The Logistics of Logistics

Having been featured in CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Bloomberg, The Loadstar, CBS News, Freight Waves, and Transport Topics, Brashier lends his expertise on US and global supply chain matters. ITS Logistics offers a wide range of services, including transportation management, warehousing, distribution, and fulfillment.

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What is Supply Chain Resilience?

GlobalTranz

COVID-19 triggered an unprecedented surge in panic buying of food, beverages, hand sanitizer, toilet paper, and other essentials. Orchestrating the efforts of suppliers, manufacturers, truck drivers, warehouses, retail employees, and other critical links in the supply chain was no small feat.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

The retailer says snacks and beverages are the most popular items sent by drone. Truck transportation jobs continued a slow recovery from the depths of the freight recession and the job losses created when Yellow Corp. The other significant trend this year has been the continued loss of jobs in the warehouse sector.

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Supply Chain Risk Management with Barry Conlon

The Logistics of Logistics

Founder and former CEO of FreightWatch, Barry is considered one of the originators of modern-day supply chain security standards and best practices that have been adopted by shippers of high-value freight worldwide. Customers include Microsoft, Bristol Myers Squibb, and many others.

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Stord CEO Sean Henry Recognized as Food Logistics’s 2021 Rock Star of Supply Chain

Stord

Stord partnered with leading cold storage providers and integrated a freight offering into our platform in 2020 to create more liquid capacity for many of our retail, food, and beverage customers who were fighting hard to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Cross Docking 101: What, Why and How? [with case studies]

Unleashed

This removes the ‘storage’ element of warehousing logistics, and saves on costs, warehousing space, time and labour. In a cross docking system, goods are not stored onsite – making it different from warehousing Cross docking vs warehousing – what’s the difference? Why is cross docking used?

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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

aims to have at least 25 percent of all beverages globally across its portfolio of brands sold in refillable / returnable glass or plastic bottles, or in refillable containers through traditional fountain or Coca-Cola Freestyle dispensers. The ongoing freight backups at maritime ports is disrupting global supply chains.