An Expanded Panama Canal Takes Logistics into Uncharted Waters
TMC
JUNE 30, 2016
The arrival of the Benjamin Franklin offers a glimpse of a major change in supply chain management in 2016. The ship has a capacity of nearly 18,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), and in anticipation of the surge in cargo, trucking companies were alerted and rail cars were positioned well ahead of the vessel’s arrival.
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