Operations and Supply Chain Management
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
With global cargo lanes clogged, businesses are turning to new ways to deliver goods. Mississippi River cargo traffic near Luling, La. Rickenbacker International Airport was a bustling hub for air freight well before the pandemic—a day’s truck drive to half of the U.S. We had a good cargo business before the pandemic.
Kanban Logistics
MAY 19, 2023
The terminal enables rail containers to be offloaded from freight cars arriving at the terminal and then loaded onto another train or truck for final distribution. The rail terminal offers direct connections to major Midwest hubs like Chicago and St. It enables cargo to reach the Midwest in five to seven days.
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Stord
MAY 2, 2022
That resulted in bottlenecks, such as the record backlogs at the port of Los Angeles, where container ships waited for weeks to offload cargo. If all your inventory is in my building in St. Louis and St. Louis gets wiped out by a tornado or has a snowstorm, I can't do anything for you,” explains Edgard. “If
Freight Center
AUGUST 20, 2019
John Butterfield was already an experienced stage line operator on the east coast when he was awarded a contract by the Postmaster General to provide semi-weekly mail service from Memphis, Tennessee and St. Louis, Missouri to San Francisco, California. Our experts can help you ship even the most unique cargo.
DAT Solutions
MAY 10, 2016
If you’re wondering how the new FDA food safety regulations are going to affect your freight brokerage, you’re not alone. About 85% of its freight is grocery-related. “Brokers carry contingent cargo insurance, but that wouldn’t cover them if someone became seriously ill because of contamination.”
New Horizon Supply Chain Blog
AUGUST 1, 2022
Source: Data from the Federal Reserve Board of St. There’s also the problem of empty miles (trucks driving with no cargo after completing a delivery), with an estimated 35% of truck miles being empty in the U.S. Freight is literally being left on the loading dock because there’s no room on the truck.
Operations and Supply Chain Management
APRIL 24, 2015
The result was terribly inefficient handling on both sides of the equation, poor space utilization on the cargo ships, freight damage, and high logistics costs. P&G first implemented the approach with Schnuck’s Markets in St. Louis, with dramatic results in both lowering inventories while increasing in-stock at retail.
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