Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The deepening power crisis has already taken 900,000 tons of smelting capacity offline in North America and Europe. For instance, the recycling rate in California for cans made from aluminum has fallen to a mere 20% from 91% in 2016 and 73% in 2021. About 73% of the aluminum cans in the US come from recycled scrap.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2023

The actions, which port employers say include work slowdowns and failure to report to cargo terminals from Southern California to Seattle, have stalled shipments ranging from inbound consumer goods to outbound agricultural commodities since late May. The agreement paused dockworker job actions potentially through the end of this week.

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QAD

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Recently, I attended a dinner outside of Detroit hosted by QAD, the Korean Battery Industry Association and NAATBatt (an organization dedicated to the development and commercialization of advanced battery manufacturing in North America). The incentives are tied in part to the assembly and sourcing of materials from North America.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 31, 2023

TPM 2023 was held February 26 – March 1, 2023, at the Long Beach Convention Center, California. TPM annually presents the industry’s most in-depth program delving into the most pressing challenges affecting container shippers in North America and globally.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

Goods move through 25 ports of entry into North America and 10 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. To improve efficiency, they have begun to install warehouse robots from Locus robotics in North America and Europe. VF is also building a new distribution center in Ontario, California. This will be about a 1.2

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

According to Mike O’Connell, Vice President of Supply Chain for Pepsi, the company owns one of the largest private fleets in North America, and that’s one of the reasons it has partnered with Tesla. Pepsi declined to say whether it had pressed the trucks to test if they have the full 500-mile range Musk promised.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 22, 2023

ProMat is the first public exhibition of this product, although it is currently live at a customer site in California for the unloading containers filled with dry goods. The ACPaQ solution in now being introduced to North America. Performance expectations are for a 40 foot container to be unloaded in under 2.5

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 2, 2021

The California Lt. Eleni Kounalakis, California Secretary of Transportation David S. And finally, May intermodal volumes again saw annual across-the-board gains, according to data provided to LM by the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA). Total May shipments, at 1,616,620, headed up 22.4 percent annually.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 30, 2023

What happened instead was massive theft of intellectual property, huge trade deficits, the hollowing out of the middle class in Europe and North America, and the rise of nativist politics. That did not happen. The US responded. First, there were the China tariffs of the Trump years. Apple is the world’s most valuable company.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Companies across North America laid out more than $2 billion for almost 40,000 robots in 2021 to help them contend with record demand and a pandemic-fueled labor shortage. Airlines in North America topped the growth chart in December, with international demand growing 20.5 percent because of congestion at major airports.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 28, 2022

California, Mexico sign historic toll- sharing pact for Otay Mesa East Port. In North America, it delivered over half a million packages with EVs, although that number should grow as the company ramps up its use of Rivian EVs in the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar, California Lt. over the next seven years.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 24, 2022

CaliBaja is a North American manufacturing powerhouse. Located in Mexico but close to the California border, it serves as a vast hub of industrial jobs, making significant contributions to the production of products that ship all over the world. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. What is Big Data?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2021

Pure Storage, a public company headquartered in Mountain View California in the US, manufactures flash-based storage for data centers. 70% of Pure Storage’s business is in North America. Product flows between the Far East and North America “did not make sense.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Firstly, Pitt Ohio’ s services span across North America. Pitt Ohio’s LTL offers direct LTL delivery through 21 terminals in the mid-atlantic and midwest regions but has coverage through all of North America with the Reliance network. Alternative Small Parcel Carriers.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Firstly, Pitt Ohio’ s services span across North America. Pitt Ohio’s LTL offers direct LTL delivery through 21 terminals in the mid-atlantic and midwest regions but has coverage through all of North America with the Reliance network. Alternative Small Parcel Carriers.

Ohio 100

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Firstly, Pitt Ohio’ s services span across North America. Pitt Ohio’s LTL offers direct LTL delivery through 21 terminals in the mid-atlantic and midwest regions but has coverage through all of North America with the Reliance network. Alternative Small Parcel Carriers.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2023

A supply agreement starting in 2025 involves EnergySource Minerals and Compass Minerals , for lithium supply to be produced in California and Utah. Volkswagen’s recent announcement of plans to open a battery production facility in Canada to support North America production needs has some elements of such a strategy.

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NFI Industries

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

From California to New Jersey, North America produces some of the best wines in the world with popularity increasing year-over-year. Americans now consume the most wine in the world and consumption is forecasted to increase by 2 percent between 2015 and 2019 1. Read More.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This growth was primarily attributed to the long-term project business, and regionally to North America and western Europe. In 2021, the SCS segment revenues grew an impressive 44.5 percent from 2,627 million to 3,796 million EUR. Bastian has rapidly grown to become a leading AutoStore distribution and implementation partner.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2023

Retailers near restocking as inventory paring winds down A timeline of Amazon’s efforts to curb counterfeit selling Target’s delivery operations evolve with improved capacity, loading speeds Cargo ships lost 661 containers at sea in 2022, WSC report says Panama Canal imposes shipping restrictions US West Coast ports, dock workers ‘on doorstep of agreement’ (..)

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 28, 2024

In conjunction with the reporting of 2023 financial performance, the California based EV maker announced that the company would lay off upwards of 15 percent of its current staffing, amid cash and ongoing business and supply chain related challenges.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 8, 2024

Deep Impact (1998) In Deep Impact , a comet strikes the earth, creating a mega-tsunami that devastates the Atlantic coasts of North America, South America, Europe, and Africa. San Andreas (2015) If California was a country, its $3.1 Thus, a catastrophic earthquake in California would have a profound supply chain impact.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

The Normalcy Index calculated weekly by the Economist projects that North America is 67% of the way back to normalcy from COVID, but globally, it is lower at 50% with many flare-ups. In the United States, fire activity increased in February and March 2022—fire is not just a California issue. A Need to Rethink Work.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The partnership will kick off by first sourcing Walmart’s California stores with Plenty’s leafy greens from its Compton farm. Maritime containership giant A.P. Moller – Maersk is turning to flying drones to manage inventory counts in its warehouse network, the Danish firm said.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2022

FedEx Express is teaming up with California Bay Area-based Elroy Air, the company building the first end-to-end autonomous vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial cargo system. FedEx also plans to test autonomous drone cargo delivery, partnering with Elroy Air.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 22, 2021

IKEA’s stores in North America are the hardest hit by product shortages, followed by Europe. The agreement will give LaserShip, which delivers in the Eastern and Midwestern US a delivery presence in eight Western states, including all of California. billion.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 4, 2023

It has about 1,000 members mostly in North America and Canada but also worldwide. One of the experiences when we moved to California was joining a Facebook group where they offered weekly get-togethers. Together, we joined a couples group called HUGS – Hope-Understanding-Growth-Support. I think that Allies should be open-minded.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Sarah Zielinski ( @SarahZielinski ) reports, “There are six subspecies of wild turkey, all native to North America. But restoration programs across North America have brought the numbers up to seven million today.” The pilgrims hunted and ate the eastern wild turkey, M.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2022

The deal, which Kraft said is one of its biggest tech investments, “increases our dependability,” said Carlos Abrams-Rivera, Kraft Heinz President of North America, adding that it should help make “sure we’re there whenever you need us … regardless of the situation that the world is going through.”

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Supply Chain Digest

JANUARY 20, 2016

Canadian Provinces Looking to Join California Exchange, as Systems Function Technically, but are They Really Effective. Impact on Supply Chains Still Low

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 10, 2017

CX North America Integrates Its Freight Collaboration Platform With Active Aero Group’s Technology. The international shipment of flowers to Royal FloraHolland from Kenya, Mandarin oranges from California, and pineapples from Colombia were also used to validate the solution for shipments coming into the Port of Rotterdam.

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DAT Solutions

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

California's weather—good or bad—has a major impact on truckload capacity. California supplies nearly 50% of the nation’s produce. Shown are the key market areas (KMAs) in California. If you haven’t been following California's weather lately, it has been filled with good news and bad news.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 14, 2019

New legislation enacted by the EU and California — respectively the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) of 2018 — can significantly impact how organizations gather, store, and use personalized consumer data. By far, the most worrying for most businesses are data breaches.

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DAT Solutions

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Poor growing conditions in California and Florida are partly responsible for this change. California went from drought to floods. Other ports that bear foreign fruit include East Coast docks at Philadelphia/Wilmington, and NY/Newark, as well as Los Angeles/Long Beach, the largest port complex in North America.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2015

companies liable for child labor, slavery, human trafficking and dangerous working conditions among their suppliers, the risks to corporate brands grows by the day, said Chris Johnson, the former general counsel of General Motors North America who heads the ABA business section’s supply-chain initiative. Litigation is increasing.

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EcoVadis

JUNE 13, 2019

Now in our sixth year supporting the SPLC, it did not disappoint: This was the strongest and the most diverse gathering of committed and capable practitioners we’ve ever seen in North America — it felt like a real groundswell of action on sustainable purchasing! Strong Focus on Supplier Practices, and Private Sector.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2015

My travels this week took me to California and Boston. Three weeks is substantial and may tip the hand to reshore more manufacturing into North America. Today is a rainy day in Philadelphia. I am recovering from bronchitis. I am reflective as the rain sheets down my window. 2014 was not a good year for the western ports.

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