Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2021

billion to one-up rival’s bid for Kansas City Southern railway. In the report, NRF Vice President for Supply Chain and Customs Policy Jonathan Gold said: “We’ve never seen imports at this high a level for such an extended period of time. It will be on highway and surface streets, hauling actual freight.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 7, 2025

Products Before Talks Photo: iStock/Rat0007 June 7, 2025 Bloomberg RELATED CONTENT RELATED VIDEOS Global Trade & Economics Regulation & Compliance Apparel High-Tech/Electronics Related Articles CP Rail Agrees to Buy Kansas City Southern for $25 Billion Sartorius to Buy French Biotech Polyplus for $2.6

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Are you attending the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Conference later this month (September 25-28 in Orlando, FL)? Many products are within the category of optimizers for supply chain needs. New Transport Mode to Redefine Freight Movement. Date: Monday, September 26, 2:00-3:15 pm.

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Seasonal harvests are winding down, but capacity is still tight for reefer freight. Those, combined with the supply chain disruptions caused by the hurricanes, have led to tight capacity in southern Idaho, and outbound rates continue to climb out of Twin Falls. Chicago to Kansas City also had a big increase at $3.48/mile,

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 17, 2023

Read more The post Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (March 17, 2023) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. I arrived at the office expecting to start a research project related to the semiconductor industry (where I had spent most of my career at that point, and what I had been hired to do).

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Cathy Roberson

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Rethinking supply chains is a reader-supported publication. China was also marketed as a low-cost labor option for many US supply chains twenty to thirty years ago and now we’re seeing similar mentions about Southeast Asian countries. 😉 Rethinking supply chains is a reader-supported publication.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters March 23 rd edition of our COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict News Capsule, we provide updates to ongoing industry supply chain developments and disruptions of concern to our reading audience. based Kansas City Southern , pending full regulatory approvals which is expected sometime this year.

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Stord

APRIL 7, 2019

Rail freight volumes continued to fall at the end of March alongside service outages due to flooding in the Midwest. For example, Kansas City Southern has accepted trains from other lines that it usually wouldn’t have to accommodate. Delta reported a dip in air cargo freight last month compared to March of 2018.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Planes, Cranes, and Barges: How America Is Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos. Rickenbacker International Airport was a bustling hub for air freight well before the pandemic—a day’s truck drive to half of the U.S. International freight being unloaded at Rickenbacker airport. a digital freight forwarder. Businessweek.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 22, 2024

Supply Chain Matters updates readers and multi-industry supply chain teams on the implications of today’s development of a nationwide Canadian rail freight transport disruption. At this point it is unclear if passenger rail services across Canada, which utilize freight routes for travel will also be impacted.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 23, 2024

The order calls for the Canada Industrial Relations Board , a termed independent body, to impose binding arbitration on both Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference. Both railways were ordered to resume operations while the arbitration process initiates.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group, via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog calls reader attention to two recently published research papers that address evidence of ongoing shifts in global supply component and end production sourcing. supply chain activity. imports peaked at 21.6 percent in 2022.

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Elementum

MAY 13, 2015

Walmart Explores Mexico’s Supply Chain. The country’s underdeveloped intermodal freight transportation system is consistently outperformed by its faster and better integrated U.S. Despite these drawbacks, Walmart is continuing to bank on Mexico’s supply chain. freight imports anytime soon.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 12, 2015

Ecommerce is going to be a bigger part of future supply chain services. It also increases our market share with small businesses and significantly expands our presence in the Kansas City market. The acquisition brings a talented employee base and large customer portfolio to C.H. These benefits are just the beginning.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 23, 2023

Joe Oliaro is the Vice President of Sales and Chief Real Estate Officer at Wagner Logistics , a leading provider of supply chain solutions. Joe is a force to be reckoned with in the world of logistics and supply chain strategy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 20, 2022

We’ve all been talking about the looming supply chain talent shortage for quite some time. The supply chain’s little-known weakest link: railroad workers. Nations aim to secure supply chains with “friend-shoring”. But I just read an article about another labor shortage Walmart is facing: store managers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 25, 2021

George Brett of the Kansas City Royals hit a home run in the ninth inning of a game to give his team a last inning lead against the New York Yankees. Ahold Delhaize USA Ramps Up Supply Chain Transformation. The examinations of pitchers is getting a bit comical…and a bit ridiculous IMHO. Embark Trucks to go public via $5.2

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Elementum

AUGUST 29, 2017

As a center of petro-chemical industry and a conduit of trucking and rail out of Mexico, the key supply chain hub is currently devastated by Hurricane Harvey. Kansas City Southern suspended train operations between Kendleton and Laredo, while Union Pacific reduced the movement of trains along the areas to be hit by the storm.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 16, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides a news capsule follow-up to previous commentaries and developments that we have provided to readers. As we highlighted on Supply Chain Matters at the time , a back and forth bidding war occurred with CN making a final sweetened offer to take the acquisition away from an announced deal with CP Rail.

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Resilinc

JULY 20, 2021

In the decades since, Linton and his teams at IBM, LG, Flex and other companies have driven billions in annual procurement to China and other Asian countries, helping to create the Asia-centric manufacturing supply chains of today. Now, Linton believes those supply chains must change. manufacturing supply chain there.”.

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In a June 2021 Harvard Business Review article and in this blog , Resilinc CEO Bindiya Vakil and her co-authors Tom Linton and Dale Rogers argued that more robust and sophisticated Pan-American supply networks are critical destinations on the roadmap to drive greater resilience, sustainability and agility in U.S. supply chains.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The trucking industry moves an estimated 70 percent of the nation’s freight tonnage every year, and over the next decade, ATA projects that trucks will need to move 2.4 billion more tons of freight than they do currently. billion of Kansas City Southern’s debt. That’s all for this week.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 28, 2025

Freight services became 18% more expensive for dry truck delivery and 35% for refrigerated truck transporting. Operational Difficulties Unpredictable changes became a hard turn for companies with developed cross-border infrastructure, e.g., Canadian Pacific Kansas City with its rail network connecting the US, Canada, and Mexico.

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Resilinc

JULY 13, 2021

In its first year in force, the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) has 1) helped to seal foreign investment deals in Mexico’s automotive sector, 2) led companies to build new logistics facilities on the border, and 3) added steam to the merger of Kansas City Southern and Canadian National railways. Kevin Brady (R-TX).

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