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Selling in Tough Times with Nick Strober and Melanie Flores

The Logistics of Logistics

She started up Corning’s optical fiber factory in the Charlotte, NC area, founded a popular kindergarten engineering design workshop based on a famous MIT course, and led the STEM coaching team serving 48 Easter Seals teachers across metro Atlanta. Does role playing work in freight? – EV startup bets big on Tesla Semi – WTT.

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Walmart Looks to Expand Drone Deliveries to Five Cities

Supply Chain Brain

As part of its partnership with drone company Wing, the retail giant intends to bring drone deliveries to Houston, Tampa, Orlando, Atlanta and Charlotte by June of 2026, and will expand existing services in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. Featured Product Popular Stories Watch: Why Choose FTZs to Mitigate Tariffs?

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How Do You Measure “Free Time” Across Your Global Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

This is where metrics can get a little fuzzy. However, the reality was that the 4% metric was misleading. She was quickly able to identify that the Charlotte, NC, location had demurrage charges at 10 times the rate of other similar warehouse locations. . How do you account for Free Time across your global supply chain?

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Top Digital Supply Chain Cities in the U.S.

Material Handling & Logistics

Given that the study was funded by an Atlanta-based group, the results are hardly authoritative (for instance, a number of major cities, such as Boston, Charlotte, Denver, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, are not included in the study), but they do offer an interesting view on the supply chain capabilities of seven major regions.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

This new collaborative service leverages Con-way Truckload’s capabilities in Mexico through its CFI Logistica subsidiary, “where it has 10 offices, an extensive drayage network and 40 years of in-country experience, and Con-way Multimodal’s resources, systems and freight procurement expertise.”

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Rules and Regulations for Cargo Moving

American Global Logistics

BOX 480655 CHARLOTTE, NC 28269 (704) 837-7950 (P) / (704) 631-4667 (F) WWW.DARTMARITIME.COM RULE 1 Scope Rules, regulations and rates published herein apply BETWEEN the United States Atlantic, Gulf, Pacific and Great Lakes Ports, U.S. RULE 5 Payment of Freight Charges 5.1 RULE 2 Application of Rates and Charges 2.1

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What is Ecommerce as a Service? Definition + Solutions

ShipBob

” – Charlotte Katona, President of Makesy Distributed inventory system ShipBob’s fulfillment network includes dozens of fulfillment centers across the US, as well as facilities in the UK, Europe, Canada, and Australia. million in freight costs after leveraging the ShipBob fulfillment network.