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. The former wartime airbase handled a record 1,655 international cargo arrivals in 2021, a 73% jump from 2019, and overall tonnage rose 18%. We had a good cargo business before the pandemic.
Kanban Logistics
MAY 19, 2023
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. The Port is ranked 21 st in the country in terms of container traffic, with about 2.8 million tons of cargo moving through it in fiscal year 2022.
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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
“While the FDA ruling is a backward step for 3PLs and our liability — in that the lines are once again blurred between carrier and broker — it’s not that big of a change as far as our responsibility and procedures,” said Lindsey Graves, vice president of operations for Sunset Transportation in St.
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. Costs have increased about 60% since before the pandemic. Low Transportation Capacity Utilization.
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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