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Ho Ho No! Port Congestion and Supply Chain Delays Threaten to Disrupt Christmas

Resilinc

Reuters’ reporting team interviewed a wide range of managers at manufacturers, distributors, and retailers who predicted shortages of holiday gift items. importers of containerized goods, they may get priority access to containers and space on cargo ships,” according to Reuters. Because the two retailers are among the top U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

Earlier this week, Amazon and Hawaiian Airlines announced that the retail giant will use Hawaiian Airlines to fly its first Airbus freighters on primary cargo routes and to Hawaii beginning in the second half of 2023. Amazon’s European operations have been at the forefront of the company’s sustainable transportation push.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 30 – August 5)

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Cargo begins clogging Port of Los Angeles amid railroad worker shortage. Samsung has two big factories in China while SK Hynix Inc is buying Intel Corp’s NAND flash memory chips manufacturing business in China. chipmaking equipment to factories in China that manufacture advanced NAND chips. Apparently, warehouses are full.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 10 – 16)

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by which a commodity is produced and distributed: the companies, materials, and systems involved in manufacturing and delivering goods). In case you’re unfamiliar with that term, mechatronics is a multidisciplinary field that refers to the skill sets needed in the contemporary, advanced automated manufacturing industry.

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Doing Business in the United States

QAD

The last two states added were Alaska and Hawaii in 1959. The climate is mostly temperate, but Alaska is arctic, Florida and Hawaii are tropical, and the Great Plains are mostly arid or semi-arid. Manufacturing in the U.S. Manufacturing averaged about $1.98 Supply Chain Infrastructure for Manufacturing.