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The Zergratran Story with Byron Bennett

The Logistics of Logistics

Byron is the Founder and CEO of Zergratran , an innovative and sustainable high-capacity transportation company that is building the world’s first tunnel to expedite shipping goods between the North Atlantic and the North Pacific. Zergratran’s first project is Puerto Internacional Las Americas (PILA) in northern Colombia.

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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

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A redundant supply chain has spare or backup capacity, such as inventory, equipment, facilities, and suppliers, that can be activated or mobilized in case of disruptions. The port serves as a gateway for exporting coal to Europe, Asia, and South America, as well as importing coal from Canada and Colombia.

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Blue Yonder Pivots to a Partnership Strategy

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This “ecosystem” strategy helps evaluate the skilled capacity in the marketplace versus their internal capacity to ensure the right demand and supply balance based on their long-range model. netLogistik is a private company headquartered in Mexico City but with offices in the US, Colombia and Barcelona.

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A True Supply Chain Transformation Requires the Proper Talent

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In Belcorp’s case they have four factories located in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador. The solution can answer questions like where should new production or distribution capacity be located to optimally accommodate anticipated growth in demand? Belcorp, like most companies in their industry, has quite a complex supply chain.

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Digitizing Check Calls with Trey Griggs and Ryan Rogers

The Logistics of Logistics

He also served as a transportation executive at Amazon.com, leading procurement and carrier development at a time when e-commerce – led by companies like Amazon — turned heads around the transportation and logistics industry with increasing sales and demand for capacity. based companies set up satellite offices in Colombia.

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Doing Business in Brazil

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Brazil is located in Eastern South America and borders the Atlantic Ocean as well as the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. With a total area just slightly smaller than the U.S.,

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Interoceanic Passages

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Chokepoints (or bottlenecks) are a term used to describe the most crucial strategic marine routes because they: Capacity limitations. Chokepoints commonly have shallow, constricting depths, which hinder navigation and place restrictions on ship capacity. However, the canal can accommodate 50 ships per day at its maximum capacity.

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