Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 11, 2017

This acronym stands for All Water Service, which is one of the most cost-effective ways to ship your cargo, and also one of the most eco-friendly ; however, it’s also one of the slowest forms of freight transportation. With AWS, your cargo will be shipped from the port of origin to its destination using only water routes.

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Elementum

MAY 13, 2015

Before the mega-retailer started shipping goods through Lazaro Cardenas, the KCS had fallen on hard times. As recently as Fall of 2014, the Lorenzo Cardenas-Houston route handled an average of only 10-20 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) a week. State of New Mexico. Lazaro Cardenas Port. West Coast ports to Mexican ports by 2016.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Amazon launched the system this week at one of its warehouses in Houston. The Biden administration is refining rules aimed at keeping advanced chips and manufacturing gear out of China, seeking to close loopholes that might help its geopolitical rival gain cutting-edge technologies.

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DAT Solutions

MARCH 6, 2019

The West Coast is starting to see the freight that shipped from China after the Chinese New Year celebrations ended. port for those ships, and that freight was already being loaded onto trucks last week. Oil-related freight movements from Houston are definitely in a lull. Rising Rates. Seattle is the closest U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2022

Customers in North Asia, including China and Japan, will benefit from increased connection and service dependability as a result of the route. For the first time, the new flight route connects China’s capital Beijing to the FedEx Charles de Gaulle Hub in Paris, France, with ten weekly connections through Osaka, Japan.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 27, 2016

This mechanism must be driven not simply by external impacts, such as floods in Houston or explosions in Tianjin. Customers change the quantity they ship inside of lead times set by the supply base, and the quantities double. The challenge is to be able to filter out small issues and events that happen day to day.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JULY 3, 2018

Imagine you are at your desk in Houston and you need to determine whether a completed order left the warehouse in China. That’s why you need a global shipping strategy with a comprehensive global vendor management program. The important rule is to ship so that products never go to the company’s facility. Merge in Transit.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 18, 2021

Home Depot contracted its own container ship. The company has contracted a ship that will begin running next month. According to Home Depot’s President and Chief Operating Officer Ted Decker, “we have a ship that’s solely going to be ours and it’s just going to go back and forth with 100 percent dedicated to Home Depot.”

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 11, 2018

Only one of them is outside North America: China. If projections and recent rhetoric are to be believed, India will join China as the only non-North American countries in the $500 billion club by 2025. How is Global Shipping Growing in India? How to Take Advantage of Increased Shipping in India.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Chris Hagestad from Advance Auto Parts noted that many of their parts come from overseas locations including China. As an example, there are tariffs on the automotive rotors that go into a brake system, and over the last ten years, the vast majority of these are produced in northern China.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The levies would primarily be focused on imports from China that benefit from non-market practices. Moller-Maersk A/S , the maritime shipping giant that has been diversifying into land transportation, is betting that driverless trucks will help make deliveries more reliable. West Coast, according to data from shipping platform Xeneta.

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