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The Post-Pandemic Supply Chain with Peter Tirschwell

The Logistics of Logistics

In his role Peter leads The Journal of Commerce, the historic New York City maritime newspaper founded in 1827, today a team of specialized business journalists focused on the end-to-end international shipping supply chain including shipping, ports, airfreight, trucking, rail and home delivery, addressed to the needs of shippers.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. This includes trucking capacity concerns, port congestion , and warehouse staff. Additionally, Amazon has doubled its shipping container processing capacity by increasing ports of entry and partnered with more ocean freight carriers to secure space in “critical ports.”.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on this week’s logistics news. New wave of contracts will lock in much higher shipping rates. Three former SpaceX engineers have founded Parallel Systems , a firm specializing in autonomous battery-powered electric rail vehicles for shipping and freight.

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Highlights from TPM 2023 with Peter Tirschwell

The Logistics of Logistics

In his role Peter leads The Journal of Commerce, the historic New York City maritime newspaper founded in 1827, today a team of specialized business journalists focused on the end-to-end international shipping supply chain including shipping, ports, airfreight, trucking, rail and home delivery, addressed to the needs of shippers.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 28 – August 1, 2014)

Talking Logistics

In this week’s news… XPO Logistics to Acquire New Breed Logistics. Amazon to open five new warehouses in India (Reuters). XPO Logistics continues its roll-up strategy with its announced acquisition of New Breed Logistics this week for $615 million.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 27-31, 2014)

Talking Logistics

It was a great costume, and we looked great — except we were living in Arizona at the time and nobody outside of New York City (the only place the Blue Man Group was performing at the time) had heard of them, so every time we showed up at a party that night, people would yell out, “Hey, look, Smurfs !” In late April, C.H.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 10 – 16)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Labor shortages in transportation and warehousing are quick to make headlines, but job opportunities across the supply chain continue to go unfilled despite promising pay and benefits. And within the sector, the warehousing and storage category has added the most jobs.