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How to Protect Your Freight From Cargo Thieves

GTG Technology Group

A few areas with high rates of cargo theft are Los Angeles, New Jersey, New York, Miami, Houston, and Chicago. Sources: [link]. The post How to Protect Your Freight From Cargo Thieves appeared first on GTG Technology Group. Don’t Let Trucks Sit for Too Long. Trucks can be sitting ducks in certain high-crime areas.

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Is It Time to Concentrate on Climate Adaptation?

Enterra Insights

we’d watch places like Houston, San Francisco, and New York City — not to mention the entire state of Florida — slowly disappear into the sea.” East notes, “Sustainability analytics requires a lot of data from many different sources. South America would say goodbye to cities like Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires.

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The American Red Cross: A New SCRC Partner Company Engages the Influence Model!

Supply Chain View from the Field

This was at the request of my good friend, Tom Nash, who I have known since 2000, when he was an IT Sourcing executive at Shell Oil in Houston. This is why it’s so useful to learn how to influence others without using authority.

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 Energy Crisis Looms Globally and Nationally Threatening to Upend Economies, Businesses and Supply Chains

American Global Logistics

Hence, we’ll look at the practical aspects of the impending energy crisis and how to prevent and/or mitigate its adverse effects. According to Ed Hirs, a University of Houston energy economics professor, the 25 days of supply would only be an issue if consumers panic. We know how to prepare for, avoid, and mitigate disruptions.

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Four Risk Mitigation Actions for Weathering a Stormy Market

TMC

Although container shipping is in dire straits with several other lines at risk of failure or in the throes of restructurings, it is by no means the only source of unpredictability in freight markets. A key battleground region that stretches from Detroit in the north to Houston in south is especially sensitive to such trade-offs.

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Podcast: Digital Solutions Innovator Philip Black

Requis

People would like to hear how you got started and how did you get to where you are today?”. When I moved to Houston I did work with a company that was trying to create digital twins before the concept formally existed. This was back in 2001 when I started in Houston. I’m a chemical engineer.

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Energy efficiency: Are fossil fuels or renewables the more reliable source?

USC Consulting Group

The question is how to go about that. By just about every measure, natural resources such as these are significantly more efficient than legacy sources like coal, natural gas and oil. “Which energy source gets you the most power delivery for your investment dollar? economy’s (30%). Fossil fuels weak in efficiency.