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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.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 28 – September 1, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Port Houston Container Terminals to Resume Operations Friday (WSJ – sub. The rains and winds of Tropical Storm Harvey are over, but the impact of the storm on the residents of Houston and the surrounding areas will continue for some time. Freight Companies Scramble to Reroute Goods in Wake of Harvey (WSJ – sub.

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Provoking the Industry to Move Past Incrementalism

Supply Chain Shaman

I define digital as the rethinking the atoms and electrons of the supply chain. Houston, We Have a Problem. Houston, we have a problem. We are quickly falling into the trough of disillusionment because we are not thinking more broadly. What Is A Digital Transformation? Confluence of New Technologies. This also is not progress.

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The Current State of the Shipping Capacity Crunch

GlobalTranz

An active hurricane season, the forthcoming implementation deadline for electronic logging devices (ELD) and record-shattering projections for the upcoming holiday shipping season reflect some of the top factors affecting the current state shipping capacity crunch.

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How Supply Chain Will be Affected by Hurricane Harvey

Material Handling & Logistics

Hurricane Harvey has struck a significant blow to the Houston, Texas metro area, home to the sixth largest import terminal in the world, as well as all of the shipping lanes in the Gulf Coast area. Given the strong economic linkages between the gulf coast and the country as a whole, Harvey is a disaster that will impact the U.S.

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2019 Conferences for Consumer Goods Professionals

Alloy

We’re posting this from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where we’ve had a couple packed days of meetings and checking out the latest innovations in technology. 7–10, ISM2019 (Houston, TX) Apr. The 2019 conference schedule is off to a busy start! RSVP > Feb. 3–6, Shoptalk (Las Vegas, NV) Apr.

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Today’s Freight Capacity Crisis: Where Do We Go from Here?

Talking Logistics

In fact, in November 2016, a survey of shippers published by the Journal of Commerce found that shippers didn’t “appear to believe capacity will tighten considerably in advance of a federal electronic logging mandate for all interstate truck drivers scheduled to take effect next December 1.” That all changed with the summer of 2017.

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