Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Google Express, the tech company’s fast delivery service, expands in Kansas City (Kansas City Star). oTMS Raises $25M in Series B Funding Round to Build China’s Open Transport Platform. Top e-retailers deliver the goods faster (Internet Retailer). project44 Raises $10.5M UPS To Hire About 95,000 For Holiday Season.

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Resilinc

JULY 26, 2022

Importantly, lead times were improving by the end of the quarter, “partially because key cities in China reopened” after COVID lockdowns were lifted. Strengths and weaknesses of PC makers’ supply chains varied by geographies, and those regional variations strongly influenced revenues for some firms.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2021

billion to one-up rival’s bid for Kansas City Southern railway. Supply chain disruptions such as the US – China trade war, increased demand during the pandemic, and most recently, the Suez Canal lockage, has caused an international shortage of shipping containers. Shortage of ocean containers shows no sign of easing. CN offers $33.7

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Elementum

MAY 13, 2015

The route is part of the the Kansas City Southern (KCS) network and is one of a few new options carriers like Maersk (the company Walmart contracts) have started to provide as an alternative to the West Coast port congestion. Chinese President Xi Jinping has commented on the project, calling it “the first of the Mexico-China Alliance.”.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 6, 2015

percent, 136,700 jobs), and Kansas (11.9 The principal causes of manufacturing job losses were growing trade deficits, especially with China, Mexico, and other low-wage nations, and the weak recovery from the Great Recession since 2009. The top 10 states ranked by manufacturing’s share of total state employment in 2013 are Indiana (16.8

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 10, 2020

Not only does Amazon maintain a small share of total retail, it also faces significant global competition from companies like China’s Alibaba. ” The WSJ editorial team adds, “American giants operate in a global economy with emerging competitors, especially from China. ”[3]. Breaking up U.S.

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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. Also, farming machinery has not yet started to move in volume, leading to lower rates out of Rock Island, IL: The lane from Rock Island to Kansas City fell 64¢ to $2.33/mi. Rising Rates. Seattle is the closest U.S.

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MIT Supply Chain

JUNE 3, 2021

In March of this year, the railroads Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern announced they had entered into a merger agreement. Further reading Transportation in the Americas: A Cross-Country Comparison Moving Out of China? The plan is to create the first rail network connecting the US, Mexico, and Canada.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 4, 2022

According to FreightWaves , “ The Freightos Baltic Daily Index (FBX) China-West Coast assessment has fallen 76% over the past six months, to $3,799 per forty-foot equivalent unit as of Friday. year agreement will initially enroll corn, soy, and wheat farmers in Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Nebraska.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 21, 2023

Nestle has partnerships with ADM and Ardent Mills, the two primary wheat flour suppliers for DiGiorno products, to support wheat farms in Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota and Indiana. The chip industry is keen to protect its profits in China as the Biden administration considers another round of restrictions on chip exports to China.

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DynaSys

MARCH 10, 2020

Harley-Davidson is a high profile example of a company shifting production to low-cost manufacturing countries from the US in response to a tariff battle when it moved production from Kansas to India & Brazil to continue to be able to sell competitively into the EU after that market’s retaliatory tariffs. . Distribution Planning.

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Resilinc

JULY 20, 2021

In 1983, Tom Linton took a ferry from Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China, then bounced along a dirt road in a van to reach a factory in Shenzhen that offered lower costs for the parts he sought. The Mexico-US-Canada rail network envisioned in the pending merger of Kansas City Southern with Canadian National would help.

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