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Ocean Freight: Key Trends & Planning For Peak Season 2023

Ware2Go

Meanwhile, in the political sphere, China is reportedly in conversation with Cuba to establish a spy base on Cuban soil. In a recent survey on the future of fulfillment , 45% of SMBs reported that they want to divert their team’s time away from fulfillment and back towards their core capacities.

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In Memoriam: Rear Admiral Stephen Kent Chadwick, USN (retired)

Enterra Insights

Navy quarantine around Cuba to prevent the Soviets from bringing nuclear ballistic missiles to the island. During the following 28 years as a Surface Warfare Officer, he served in numerous capacities both at sea and ashore. The destroyer sortied with the Essex (CVS-9) anti-submarine group and helped establish a U.S.

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Hurricane Harvey & Irma's Threat on the Product Economy

Elementum

Currently, Hurricane Irma is monitored north of Cuba, where mandatory evacuations were ordered, and is forecast to hit Florida. Gulf Coast is home to about 90% of the nation's capacity to turn out base plastics. In Puerto Rico, more than a million people were left without power and 50,000 without water.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 9-13, 2015)

Talking Logistics

As I mentioned last week, although the focus is currently on the labor dispute, there are bigger, longer-term risks associated with the ports ecosystem, including truck and rail capacity constraints, that supply chain executives need to start planning for today. XPO will integrate the acquisition into its XPO Last Mile division.

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Texas Refiners Work on Harvey Recovery as More Storms Loom

Material Handling & Logistics

We have seen a fair amount of refinery capacity return online but there still is a significant amount that is still offline between the Houston-Beaumont-Port Arthur region,” Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates LLC in Houston, said by telephone. refining capacity offline, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 7-11, 2015)

Talking Logistics

He had just arrived from Cuba, and having grown up on a farm, seeing those tall buildings rise from the ground was simply amazing. Importantly, we’ll gain strategic ownership of assets that will benefit our company and our customers during periods of tight capacity. Some things never change.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 9-13, 2017)

Talking Logistics

It’s what my father did when he worked in the sugarcane fields in Cuba and dreamed of escaping poverty. and Europe and uses an asset-light model to match customers’ outgoing freight shipments with available trucking capacity in its network of carriers. . Here’s what my daughter wrote: Daydreaming runs in the family.