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Limestone Extraction from Florida Quarries!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The Lake Belt region in Miami-Dade county has the best quality limestone in Florida. The Miami-Dade limestone sector provides over 14,000 jobs and a payroll of around $550 million. For example, some areas are rich with limestone, while others may have none but contain large amounts of sand or clay. Popular Quarries in Florida.

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Capacity Crunch Factors: What Causes a Capacity Crunch?

GlobalTranz

Unbelievably, the capacity crunch is back the shipping headlines. Now, the shipping and transportation industry faces unprecedented capacity problems, and the upcoming ELD implementation deadline will exacerbate the issue. Take the example of Amazon Prime and free delivery. In April 2017, William B. Gross of JOC.

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Atlantic Storms: Carriers Stuck at Sea

Elementum

Current Status: Ports at risk: Miami through Charleston. Boats in transit within 50 miles of Miami Port are at risk. Get started on an alternate plan focusing on executing Miami lanes from the Port of Savannah. It will likely only be decided if vessels are rerouted once the extent of the damage to ports is known.

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New LTL Freight Rates (and a Special Holiday Surprise!)

Freightera

New Pallet Shipping Rates in Canada, USA, and Cross-Border. Dear customers, Thank you for shipping freight with Freightera! See examples below. New Freight Rates for Shipping Cross-Border Canada to USA. (1 New Freight Rates for Shipping Cross-Border USA to Canada. (1 New Freight Rates for Shipping USA Domestic. (1

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Looking for a Warehouse in North Carolina? Check out our pad

Kanban Logistics

For example, you can: Build a combined factory/distribution center, with Kanban operating the DC. Prime East Coast location: North Carolina sits smack in the middle of the East Coast, midway between Miami and Boston, with easy access to several vital interstate highways like I-95, I-85, and I-40. The following are a few reasons why.

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Inventory and Inflation

Enterra Insights

In the grocery sector, for example, correspondents from the New York Times observe, “[Grocery shoppers] doing their weekly runs to grocery stores [are finding] some items that used to be plentiful have been missing for months.”[2] The irony of excess inventory. Excess inventory was also caused by the Bullwhip Effect.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 29 – October 3, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Shipping Vendor ABOL Software to Help Retail Customers Drive International Sales. Shipping startup Shyp comes to New York and soon Miami (VentureBeat). UPS, FedEx Want Retailers to Get Real on Holiday Shipping (WSJ – sub. enVista’s announcement last week is the latest example. The MetaPack Group Acquires U.S.