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Breakbulk Americas with Jeff Tucker

The Logistics of Logistics

Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, the world’s hub for oil and gas. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. This year, we are welcoming back global sector leaders in-person to discover trends shaping project opportunities and engage in a variety of networking activities. The three-day event will take place Tuesday, Sept.

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Shipping Containers and Supply Chain Snarls: Is There a Way Out?

Enterra Insights

Marketing expert Robby Pedraza explains, “During World War II, standard sized shipping containers were developed to ship military cargo to the front lines. Five days later, the Ideal-X sailed into Houston, Texas, where waiting trucks collected the containers for delivery to local factories and warehouses.

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Logistics of Hurricane Harvey's Humanitarian Aid

Elementum

Hurricane Harvey has been wreaking havoc in the state of Texas since Friday, August 25th, crippling most of the state, and specifically devastating Houston. Houston shipping channels and ports at Corpus Christi and Galveston have been shut down. 33 counties in Texas are under federal disaster declaration.

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Enabling Innovation Groups To Sell More Effectively to Operations Leaders

ThroughPut

As the founding CEO of a Silicon Valley start-up that evolved first in the operational back-alleys of Houston and Memphis and the trenches of Oil & Gas, Logistics, Transportation, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain, my experience is very different from the usual Silicon Valley fairy tale. So, when the incentives are not aligned, who wins?

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