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

Enterra Insights

Much of the finger-pointing involved the movement of shipping containers into and out of port facilities. For the supply chain to work smoothly, a complex and highly choreographed dance, involving both full and empty shipping containers, must be performed. More than 80 ships stretched to the distance — a new record.

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Ocean Shipping and Global Trade 2023

American Global Logistics

An Insider's Look at the Current State and Future Trends of Global Trade Introduction to Ocean Shipping in 2023 Ocean shipping plays a vital role in the global trade landscape. The sheer scale and efficiency of ocean shipping have made it an indispensable component of the global supply chain.

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NRF 2022: 4 Big Session Themes from Retail’s Big Show

ToolsGroup

CEO Sumit Singh described the company’s “speed of innovation and quality and longevity of customer care and customer experience” as its North Star amid supply disruptions. The new infrastructure bill invests $17 billion for shipping ports , but Ruda maintains “We can’t build our way out of this problem.

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Walmart’s Notion of Next Generation Online Customer Fulfillment Centers

Supply Chain Matters

According to the announcement posted on the retailer’s web site by David Guggina, Senior Vice President of Innovation and Automation at Walmart , four next generation fulfillment centers will be built over the next three years. The first, located in Joliet, Illinois , will reportedly open this summer.

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Maybe its time for consumers to consume less…Market Satiation as a new supply chain strategy

NC State SCRC

The current set of supply chain disruptions is being set off by a combination of COVID cases and energy disruptions in manufacturing hubs around the world, labor shortages, lack of capital infrastructure investment, misaligned transportation resources ( a lack of containers, ships, and trucks), and surges in consumer demand.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 27 – December 1, 2017)

Talking Logistics

The mad dash begins to finish all the work that needs to get done before 2018 arrives, so without delay, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: E-Commerce Boosts U.S. Shipping Networks (WSJ – sub. Shipping firm Clarksons braces for data leak after refusing to pay hacker (The Guardian).

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Maersk Innovation with Erez Agmoni

The Logistics of Logistics

Erez Agmoni and Joe Lynch discuss Maersk innovation. Dr. Erez Agmoni is the Senior VP of Innovation & Strategic Growth for Maersk, the largest shipping company in the world. Dr. Erez Agmoni is the Senior VP of Innovation & Strategic Growth for Maersk in North America. Key Takeaways: Maersk Innovation.