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Hurricane Harvey - Effects, Forecasts, and Operational Best Practices

Elementum

As a center of petro-chemical industry and a conduit of trucking and rail out of Mexico, the key supply chain hub is currently devastated by Hurricane Harvey. Several ports and businesses, including ExxonMobil, INEOS, INVISTA, and Occidental Chemical, suspended their operations on Thursday August 24th, as Tropical Storm Harvey approached.

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Regulator: Moving Hazardous Chemicals by Train is Far Safer Than Trucks

Supply Chain Brain

Oberman led the transportation board in approving the $31 billion merger between Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern, which will have steep repercussions for Chicago-area communities, citing safety as one of the chief reasons.

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Team Flares Chemical Gas From Derailed Train Cars in Ohio to Prevent Explosion

Supply Chain Brain

Norfolk Southern says shipments are being delayed across an area from Chicago to New York and Kansas City as workers try to clear the scene.

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Faceless AI Will Not Relegate the Social Side of Business to the Past

MIT Supply Chain

On March 31, 2012, a tank filled with highly flammable butadiene exploded in one of Evonik Industries’ chemical factories in Marl, Germany. For example, Kansas-based Invista Inc., Roughly 130 firefighters fought the blaze for 15 hours at the cyclododecatriene (CDT) plant.

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

Talking Logistics

Transplace delivered more than 50 customer solutions in 2012 using the CombineNet sourcing technology, in industries including consumer goods, chemicals, manufacturing, and retail.

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Podcast: Digital Solutions Innovator Philip Black

Requis

I’m a chemical engineer. I was focused on our operations only at that time from a chemical engineering viewpoint. He holds a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Kansas and is a licensed professional engineer in Texas. I’m just gonna jump right in and say “Phil Black, who are you? Where’d you come from?