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This Week in Logistics News (May 14 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

Emissions are the other big selling point here, with the electric systems offering more efficiency than traditional ground transportation. This shortfall is impeding efforts to transport goods and, in doing so, further hobbling an already-delicate supply chain. That’s nearly 29 percent of their workforce.

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COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict Global Supply Chain News Capsule March 23 2022

Supply Chain Matters

based Kansas City Southern , pending full regulatory approvals which is expected sometime this year. lawmakers had expressed concerns that with supply chains already highly constrained, the CP Rail stoppage would create an added transportation crisis for import as well as export flows. Canadian and U.S. Further, U.S.

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Added Evidence of Emerging Regionalization of Global Supply Networks

Supply Chain Matters

The Looming Great Allocation In conjunction with the Jackson Hole Symposium held last week and organized by The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City , a research paper titled: Global Supply Chains: The Looming “Great Reallocation ” was released. import share in auto parts, glass, iron and steel products. supply chain activity.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 14-18, 2014)

Talking Logistics

In this week’s news… HighJump Software Acquires Atlas Products International, Expands Global Trading Partner Network in Europe. We are a transportation company – we are not law enforcement. In short, the outcome of this case could have broad implications for the transportation industry. SAP Launches 2.0 FedEx faces U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 17 – 23)

Logistics Viewpoints

billion to one-up rival’s bid for Kansas City Southern railway. In total, the company will source enough renewable energy in Europe to power the equivalent of more than two million homes a year. The acquisition would be subject to approval by KCS shareholders, the US Surface Transportation Board (STB), and Mexican regulators.

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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. For many, it’s their first job.

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Can the Latin America and Caribbean Region Use Nearshoring to Become a Supply Chain Hub?

MIT Supply Chain

An inhibitor to integrating Mexico into North American supply chains is a lack of efficient transportation links, but there is some good news on this front too. In March of this year, the railroads Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern announced they had entered into a merger agreement.