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COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict Global Supply Chain News Capsule March 23 2022

Supply Chain Matters

After a three-day stoppage of rail operations impacting transcontinental shipments of key commodities and manufactured goods, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference have reached a settlement calling for final and binding arbitration of differences. East Coast Ports the Likely Next Test.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 21 – 27)

Logistics Viewpoints

AirTerra aggregates parcel volume from many shippers in an area, provides point-to-point service and a complete end-to-end shipping solution by bringing together many regional parcel carriers and the USPS. Kansas City assembles the F-150. Oakville builds the Ford Edge and Lincoln Nautilus crossovers.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 17 – 23)

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billion to one-up rival’s bid for Kansas City Southern railway. The series of deals in the US, UK, Sweden, Spain, and Canada will add more than 1.5 This is likely to be an ongoing problem as the pace of container shipping trade continues to increase. Shortage of ocean containers shows no sign of easing. CN offers $33.7

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This Week in Logistics News (September 17 – 23)

Logistics Viewpoints

Walmart in the news: Walmart Canada brings AI to the shelves. After a successful pilot program at 70 stores, Walmart Canada is expanding its partnership with software company Focal Systems to bring a computer vision artificial intelligence solution to stores throughout the country. Let the holiday season begin.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 27 – December 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

Earlier this week, Dave Clark, CEO of Amazon’s worldwide consumer business, said that the company is poised to become the largest US package delivery service by early 2022, overtaking longstanding shipping rivals UPS and FedEx. billion of Kansas City Southern’s debt. The current measure applies to more than 100 steel products.

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Nursing Hospital and Healthcare Supply Into a New Age

Logistics Bureau

Different material types are then consolidated and shipped to the organisation’s hospitals and other medical facilities. Self-distribution is practiced by at least 40 large healthcare systems in the United States, and by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS), as well as other organizations in Europe and Canada.

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Investing in regional supply chains

Resilinc

Shipping by land can be less costly and more efficient than the ocean shipping from Asian countries on which the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement, which reformed and updated NAFTA, has been stimulating greater investment by U.S. Gulf Coast and Midwest and across Canada—was driven in large measure by the certainty provided by USMCA.