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What Transportation Professionals Need to Know About the U.S.-Mexico Border Situation

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Work with your account managers and transportation service providers to review time critical and urgent freight shipments. Access a broad network of transportation modes to mitigate against the risk of closures by leveraging air and rail services to make sure your freight keeps moving. – El Paso Times.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

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While many retailers are discounting, canceling orders, and otherwise scrambling to get rid of a glut of goods filling their stores and warehouses, some are embracing their higher inventory levels. and BNSF Railway have issued more embargoes—restrictions placed on the amount of cargo that can be transported—than in previous years.

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Guest Post: Texas Now the Number 1 State for Refrigerated Freight Volume

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Upgraded highways and bridges in Mexico make Texas border towns like El Paso and Laredo more accessible and more popular than Nogales, AZ, the previous volume leader. the imported produce must be inspected, usually in a refrigerated warehouse in Texas. After crossing the border into the U.S.,

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This Week in Logistics News (February 6 – 12)

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Peloton will incur 10 times its usual transportation costs. Warehouse hiring data shows how supply chains flexed up for peak. In December, Uber made a pledge to offer 10 million free or discounted rides to make sure that a lack of transportation did not stop people from getting the Covid vaccine. million workers.