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Trucker protest over COVID vaccines: an update

Resilinc

The protests—especially the blockade of the Detroit-Windsor border crossing—have caused delays and bottlenecks in production across the automotive industry in the U.S. While the Detroit-Windsor crossing was opened Monday morning (February 14), blockades continued to disrupt crossings in Manitoba and Alberta. and Canada.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 17 – 23)

Logistics Viewpoints

The fulfillment center is the second of four next-generation facilities that aim to bring the powerful combination of people, technology and machine learning together to achieve faster shipping and delivery, while increasing Walmart.com order fulfillment capacity. Food and agriculture companies in the U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 5 – 11)

Logistics Viewpoints

Total spending on food, drinks, apparel, decorations, and other purchases for the day is expected to reach $14.6 Ocean’s biggest shipping lines are buying planes. Hasbro raising toy prices due to shipping costs. This year, 90 million people are planning to throw or attend a party, up from 62.8 million last year, and another 13.7

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World's Most Important Chemical Made Rare Commodity by Harvey

Material Handling & Logistics

manufacturing of essential items from milk jugs to mattresses. consumer and industrial goods, feeding into car parts used by Detroit and diapers sold by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Processing plants turn the chemical into polyethylene, the world’s most common plastic that’s used in garbage bags and food packaging.