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Seattle Ports Offer Relief for L.A. Bottlenecks

Supply Chain Brain

Pacific Northwest are standing out for their calm relative to the congestion bedeviling ports from Los Angeles to Savannah, Georgia. The trade gateways in the U.S.

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Hurricane Michael halts shipments

DAT Solutions

Demand for trucks will likely increase in the coming weeks, with FEMA loads and emergency freight heading to the Florida Panhandle, Georgia and the Carolinas. Seattle to Salt Lake City lost 18¢ at $2.18, with fewer imports hitting the Seattle port. That could hopefully pick back up soon, as the U.S.

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Outbound Tender Rejections Increase for the First Time Since March Peak

Zipline Logistics

Tennessee, Georgia, Texas, and Florida all still desirable locations for carriers. Seattle is becoming a more favorable market for carriers and rejection rates are increasing. We are seeing favorable rates for shippers in Seattle, Ontario, California, and Denver, Colorado as carriers look to capitalize on outbound volumes.

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-Up: March 4 2022

Supply Chain Matters

In January, Supply Chain Matters highlighted an announcement from electric vehicle start-up Rivian Automotive disclosing plans to invest in a second volume manufacturing facility be located near Atlanta, Georgia with production operations being planned for 2024.

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Global Status of the Physical Internet — A Vision for Sustainable, Secure, Resilient Supply Chains

Freightera

Interview with Benoit Montreuil, Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Director, Physical Internet Center; Director, Supply Chain & Logistics Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Interviewed by Eric Beckwitt, Founder and CEO, Freightera. Indeed, Amazon has been hiring my graduate students.

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Gridlock at US Ports is Reshaping the Supply Chain

RFgen

In fact, leasing of industrial real estate rose along the East Coast last year, including a 15 percent increase in Savannah, Georgia, where vacancy rates dipped to 5 percent in the fourth quarter, Colliers Savannah’s year-end Industrial Market Report said. By comparison, the vacancy rate at the end of 2013 was more than 9 percent.

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Gridlock at US Ports is Reshaping the Supply Chain

RFgen

In fact, leasing of industrial real estate rose along the East Coast last year, including a 15 percent increase in Savannah, Georgia, where vacancy rates dipped to 5 percent in the fourth quarter, Colliers Savannah’s year-end Industrial Market Report said. By comparison, the vacancy rate at the end of 2013 was more than 9 percent.