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The Definitive Guide on Produce Season Transportation Impacts

Zipline Logistics

Produce season transportation can have an impact on your freight, even if you do not ship grains, fruits, or vegetables. Even if you don’t grow or ship produce, your transportation performance and spend can still be directly impacted. How Produce Season Transportation Affects Rates and Capacity – State by State.

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Reflections on Hard Hats and Safety Shoes…

Supply Chain Shaman

I live in West Virginia. When the added costs of transportation and inventory working capital impacts are added, there is a solid logic to bringing manufacturing back to North America. And, as always, if you fill out one of our surveys, we will keep your responses anonymous, and only share the data in aggregate.

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3 Ways to Get the Supply Chain Ready for Disaster

RFgen

With Houston largely unavailable from a commerce perspective, businesses can no longer rely on their supply, transport and warehouse networks in the area. A large thunderstorm impacting Maryland and West Virginia caused an almost 193-hour outage that affected 145,000 people.

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3 Ways to Get the Supply Chain Ready for Disaster

RFgen

With Houston largely unavailable from a commerce perspective, businesses can no longer rely on their supply, transport and warehouse networks in the area. A large thunderstorm impacting Maryland and West Virginia caused an almost 193-hour outage that affected 145,000 people.

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Profile in Leadership: Jeff Bezos Testifies Before Congress

Enterra Insights

Alibaba wants to elbow into Amazon’s data cloud business in Europe. We hire and train hundreds of thousands of people in states across the country such as West Virginia, Tennessee, Kansas, and Idaho. Breaking up U.S. tech companies would be a gift to ByteDance, Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, among others.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 16-20, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Transport for London to accelerate workforce planning with Quintiq. Derailed CSX train in West Virginia hauled newer-model tank cars ( Reuters ). Version 11.0 of Continuous Move Planner (CMP) and Paradox Routing Tool (PART) Now Available. UNIT45 and Globe Tracker Partner on Smart Refrigerated Container Offering.