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The Empty Container Marketplace with Sean Bardon

The Logistics of Logistics

About Qualle Since launching in May 2022, Qualle has quickly built up a substantial trucker base that spans from the LA and Long Beach ports to New York, New Jersey, Savannah, Houston, and Memphis ports. Truckers can use Qualle to manage and request street turns with multiple steamship lines at the click of a button.

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Three Ways Center-of-Gravity Studies Lead You Astray

Logility

Inbound transportation will skew the optimum location in the direction of the suppliers. Granted, outbound transportation is costlier per mile than inbound, but inbound is still a determining factor in most cases. Example 3 : In this case, a set of customers in the Midwest are supplied by a plant out of Memphis. And Problem #3

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Protect Your Shipments From Cargo Theft

Zipline Logistics

Cargo Theft Increases in the United States Cities seeing a spike in freight theft include Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, Savannah, Newark, New Jersey, Memphis, and Chicago. According to CNBC, this is a “sign of the economic times” and adding further pressure to already inflated prices. It must be taken to a secured drop yard.

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Supply chains on film

Supply Chain Movement

Supply chain professionals can learn a lot from Hollywood about outsourcing, sustainability, Big Data, innovation, supply chain strategy and risk management. Transportation against the clock. In Sorcerer (1977), drivers are tasked with transporting creates of explosive nitroglycerin through the South American jungle in two old trucks.

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Book Review: Logistics Clusters-Delivering Value and Driving Growth

Supply Chain Opz

While industrial clusters are extensively covered in many economic literature, logistics clusters which focus on various activities in transportation and distribution is the uncharted territory. The problem is, data is so huge (500,000 rows in excel file) then its not easy to analyze.

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America Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Although air cargo is usually the priciest mode of transport, it became the only way to ensure timely delivery given the dismal state of ocean reliability during the pandemic. Data: Sea-Intelligence. Part of that idea includes embracing “rerouting behaviors” that can include nontraditional hubs such as Rickenbacker, he says.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 14 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

Starting in 2024, Amazon will require suppliers to share their emissions data , set emissions goals, and report on their progress, the e-commerce giant said in its recently released sustainability report. In 2022, there were at least 22 workplace injuries at DHL’s CVG operations that required transport to a hospital or emergency room.