Logistics Bureau

MARCH 19, 2020

Almost 75 percent of US companies are experiencing capacity shortfalls in their supply chains, due to Coronavirus-linked transport disruptions , a new study has shown. Some US manufacturers, however, have resorted to airlifting supplies from China at a premium price.

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MIT Supply Chain

JUNE 21, 2021

As consumer demand nosedived during the pandemic, companies cut their manufacturing capacities. The article argues, for instance, that the per-mile cost of a new tunnel in Seattle is more than three times the cost of a recent tunnel project in Paris, France, and more than seven times that of one in Madrid, Spain.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The company acknowledged that it overbuilt customer fulfillment capacity and aimed to sublet upwards of 10 million square feet or more of warehouse space. Last week, a published report from the Seattle Times was headlined: Amazon going big to fill the delivery void left by Shopify’s retreat.

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Proxima

AUGUST 3, 2020

2020 has introduced new logistical blueprints to follow and the push to get work done with fewer employees has grown exponentially as social distancing directives continue to influence the nation’s manufacturing. Warehousing pressures: will there be a lack of capacity? Growth of automation. What is the right strategy? •

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Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 17, 2018

Boeing said the Adient Aerospace venture was prompted by seat production foul-ups and a capacity crunch that have delayed jet deliveries and frustrated airlines. The company’s initial customer-service center will be in Seattle, where Boeing already has a hub catering to airlines shopping for cabin fittings. By Julie Johnsson.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The funding will focus on manufacturers of the inputs used in COVID-19 vaccine production as well as facilities that fill and package vaccine vials. The Covid pandemic sent the demand for container ships soaring, and prices for that limited available capacity has skyrocketed.

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Mangkhut weakened as it moved on to Hong Kong and other ports and manufacturing centers in Southeastern China, but high winds and flooding damaged property and infrastructure. loads per truck, with areas of tighter capacity along the West Coast. The ratio is a sensitive, real-time indicator of the balance between demand and capacity.

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FLEXE

DECEMBER 2, 2015

<p>Since 1985, Minneapolis-based Event Sales has been serving the reverse logistics needs of retailers and manufacturers seeking to dispose of excess merchandise. Event Sales has assortments and large selections of customer returns, closeouts, and clearance products. They needed a cost-effective storage solution L.A.,

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FLEXE

OCTOBER 7, 2015

<p>New York-based Global Point Technology has been a leader in sourcing components and assemblies for OEM manufacturers from Asia for over 30 years. With this secure, flexible storage capacity reserved, Global Point was then able to completely reengineer their distribution services for their client. </p>

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DELMIA Quintiq

JULY 16, 2015

alone, the latest being Seattle-based Elysian in February. Planning on a bigger scale requires sophisticated planning systems that maximize your efficiency and optimize your company’s valuable assets: materials, plant and equipment, capacity, workforce and capital. Map your optimal distribution. The result?

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

transportation capacity, with Jason Seidl , Managing Director at Cowen and Company, leading the conversation. I’m off to a CSCMP New England Roundtable Executive Breakfast to discuss (what else!) I’ll share my learnings in a future post, but in the meantime, here’s the news that caught my attention this week.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

When you calculated your startup expenses, you probably figured out manufacturing costs down to the penny. A crowdfunding fulfillment provider can track and warehouse your products once they arrive from the manufacturer. Careful and professional fulfillment can send your product out with a bang and point your company towards success.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Content Summary: Total Quality Logistics, one of the country’s largest freight brokerage firms, connects customers needing to move truckload, less-than-truckload or intermodal freight shipments with carriers having the capacity to move them. Content Summary: Expeditors is a global logistics company headquartered in Seattle.

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FLEXE

DECEMBER 11, 2016

FLEXE , Flexport and Convoy –three technology companies adding flexibility to the supply chain–,recently hosted the first Peak Logistics breakfast in Seattle, Washington. Now all of this capacity is gone. So 7% of the capacity is now gone. And what that caused was a huge under capacity. east coast.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 31, 2017

iconic places, such as the Route 128 tech corridor around Boston, Massachusetts; Research Triangle Park in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Austin, Texas; Seattle, Washington; and, of course, California’s white-hot Silicon Valley. congressional districts, 50 states, plus the District of Columbia.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 18, 2022

In order to make this vision a reality, however, a network with the capacity to support the transfer of significantly large volumes of Metaverse data is required. Graphics processing unit manufacturer Nvidia is working on a metaverse-infrastructure project called Omniverse.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

The company was started in 1907 as a small messenger service in Seattle with $100 in borrowed capital. million square feet of warehouse capacity for more than 7 million square feet of total space and 38 warehouses. started as a single office ocean forwarder in Seattle. The acquisition added nearly 5.4 Revenue: $8.7 Revenue: $8.17

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

The capacity crunch and technology are reshaping ?the Kearney and sponsored by Penske Logistics for CSCMP, vividly depicts a supply chain struggling under the twin demands of constrained capacity and the need for significant technological investment to help service providers and their customers keep up with soaring growth.

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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This year’s supply chain pressures have had ripple effects throughout the economy that are hurting US retailers and manufacturers. Logistics, labour and manufacturing headaches combined are likely to add another $223bn to US retailers’ costs this holiday season, Salesforce estimates. The stakes are high. Where’s it all going to go?”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The two main planks of the GSA would seek to tackle non-market excess capacity and carbon emissions. More cancellations are planned this month following the Golden Week holiday in China where manufacturing sites are idled, according to boxship executives and brokers.

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