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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

The Covid-19 pandemic tested the global supply chain. More and more cargo shifted to ocean transport until the container imbalances resulted in issues with “rolling the freight” from ship to ship despite confirmed bookings. Check out some of the work that Blume Global is doing in this area.). Next Steps.

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Supply Chain Trends for 2022: Answers to Your Top Questions

CH Robinson Transportfolio

event of 2022, my colleagues, Christina Carroll, vice president of LTL, Alan Rowlett, director of global operations and strategy, and I set out to offer exactly that. As port congestion continues to be a problem, what’s your view of container track and trace solutions? Do they help gain access to containers sooner?

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Intermodal Shipping is Growing and the Railroads are Ready

CH Robinson Transportfolio

The two main technologies used—mobile apps and container trackers—each comes with barriers. Mobile apps still rely on some human interaction and intermodal container tracking is a costly investment to retrofit older containers. Transferring 1% of truck freight to rail each year would reduce greenhouse gasses by 1.2