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A colleague and I traveled to Cuba in March as part of a trade delegation with Engage Cuba, a coalition of private businesses and organizations working to end the travel and trade embargo on Cuba. credit cards don’t work in Cuba, and there are no ATMs. Cuba remains a communist country. I enjoyed the Cuban people.
I was in a meeting with folks from Manugistics (now part of JDA) getting an update on the company and its transportation management system. He had just arrived from Cuba, and having grown up on a farm, seeing those tall buildings rise from the ground was simply amazing. Have we succeeded in creating ‘air-tight’ supply chains?
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Marten Transport Ltd. Shippers are under enormous pressure to cut transportation costs and seem not to be satisfied with the massive fuel surcharge reductions racked up over the past year and a half.”. WTO: Trade growth to remain subdued in 2016 as uncertainties weigh on global demand. Analysts at Stifel Inc. Hub Group Inc.,
I was in a meeting with folks from Manugistics (now part of JDA) getting an update on the company and its transportation management system. He had just arrived from Cuba, and having grown up on a farm, seeing those tall buildings rise from the ground was simply amazing. Roadnet® Transportation Suite 3.7.2 I don’t think so.
December 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Transportation Department pushes tough oil train standards – sources (Reuters). Who knows, maybe we’ll see TMC open a Control Tower in Cuba in the not too distant future, in which case I’ll promptly invite myself over for a tour.
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Goods have to be transported across the globe and across the neighbourhood. Goods have to be transported across the globe and delivered to different destinations – from congested cities to remote, rural areas. The main challenge in logistics is an increasing complexity of trade-offs in transport planning. Christmas Island.
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In this age of globalization, using ocean freight to transport goods is increasingly important to emerging brands. Meanwhile, in the political sphere, China is reportedly in conversation with Cuba to establish a spy base on Cuban soil. Traditionally, ocean freight shipments can take upwards to 35-40 days from China.
A state of emergency was also declared across all 159 counties, prompting business closures and the suspension of all bus, rail, and road transportation for Monday, September 11. The storm caused a nationwide power outage in Cuba , as well as widespread flooding, killing at least 10.
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Effectively, shippers (manufacturers and retailers that have products in need of transport) either don’t value innovation from their LSPs or don’t see innovation from them. Christmas Island. Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Congo, The Democratic Republic of The. Cook Islands. Costa Rica. Cote D'ivoire. Czech Republic. Dominican Republic. El Salvador.
Yesterday, the White House announced that President Obama plans to remove Cuba from the U.S. Cuba relations. All this talk about Cuba, however, sparked a question for me this week: Where does Cuba rank in logistics? list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. Source: Adelante SCM based on World Bank LPI data. Source: World Bank.
In Florida, a statewide suspension of road tolls was issued to ease the flow of mandatory evacuations (like the one ordered for the Florida Keys) and the transportation of essential relief goods. Cuba, the Bahamas, and the Turks & Caicos islands may see the storm hit on late on Friday, September 8 or early on Saturday, September 9.
Being the son of Cuban immigrants, people have been asking me what I think abou t the move by President Obama to normalize relations with Cuba. When I visited Cuba with my father in 2004, we drove several hours from Cienfuegos to Camaguey to visit my aunt Z and her family. Cuba relations. Roadnet® Transportation Suite 3.6.8
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It’s what my father did when he worked in the sugarcane fields in Cuba and dreamed of escaping poverty. Federal Judge Deals Swift Transportation Legal Setback (WSJ – sub. November 2016 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Here’s what my daughter wrote: Daydreaming runs in the family. Alphabet Inc.’s
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