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This Week in Logistics News (November 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

With all that strength, Titan’s first task will be to carry larger, bulkier items like small household appliances or pallets of pet food and gardening equipment. LSEG Workspace, a financial news and data platform, calculated inventory turnover ratios of 30 major U.S. retailers for Reuters.

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The Impact of the Red Sea Ship Attacks on Global Supply Chains and Logistics

Resilinc

The group pledged to target vessels believed to be traveling to and from Israel to put pressure on the country to stop the bombing of the Gaza Strip during the Israel-Hamas war. Will stop transporting cargo to and from Israel (Dec 17). Shipping and container transportation company. Suspended passage through the Red Sea (Dec 16).

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This Week in Logistics News (April 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

With more consumers pushing for supply chain transparency, Chipotle will be testing out RFID tags at its Chicago distribution center and at 200 Chicago stores to improve the traceability of its inventory systems. Israel Aircraft Industries is remodeling older Air Canada passenger jets to carry heavy freight.

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Q3 Economic Indicators and Statistics

American Global Logistics

Specifically, the index for all items less food and energy rose 0.3% The food index increased 0.2% The index for food at home increased 0.1% over the month, and the food away from home index rose 0.4%. Next, the index for all items less food and energy rose 0.3% The all items−less food and energy−index rose 4.1

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

Given low inventories and dwindling spare capacity, the oil market cannot afford large supply disruptions,” said UBS analyst Giovanni Staunovo in a Reuters article. Food inflation is a risk from a supply chain disruption. “Russia is the third-largest oil producer and second-largest oil exporter. The NotPetya Cyber Attack.

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24 supply chain experts & business leaders reveal the #1 challenge of supply chain management (and how to solve it)

6 River Systems

“They have multi-sourced key commodities or strategic components to reduce their reliance on any one supplier, and they had considered inventory strategy to buffer against supply chain disruption.” It’s not just this way in food, but also in many other industries. How to solve it?

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

The company is involved in European logistics, air & sea logistics, food logistics and contract logistics, providing transportation, warehousing and other value-added services to its clients. They provide air and sea freight forwarding services, customs brokerage and warehouse inventory management services.