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Panama Canal Drought: Lower Water Levels, Higher Supply Chain Risk

Resilinc

What’s happening in the Panama Canal 2023? The Panama Canal, a crucial 50-mile waterway that six percent of all global trade passes through, faced major traffic jams this month due to a historic drought. How long will the Panama Canal drought last? Which countries are impacted by the Panama Canal drought?

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This Week in Logistics News (January 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

The National Transportation Safety Board has recommended the installation of such technologies in all new passenger vehicles. Retailers are reviving an old playbook to manage their inventory levels after four years of struggling to find the sweet spot of holding enough merchandise but not too much.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

In 2023, Amazon experimented with new logistics strategies and technologies to quickly fulfill and deliver orders, and these changes paid off big. The faster delivery times this year specifically may be attributed to changes in Amazon’s logistics strategy. DHL Group does not operate ships but it uses them to transport containers.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Target’s inventories at the end of the last quarter were 16 percent lower than the same period a year ago and Walmart cut inventories in its U.S. Inventories at U.S. And now on to this week’s logistics news. general merchandise stores expanded 1.2 across the EU, and in China.

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Top Talking Logistics Posts & Episodes (Q2 2015)

Talking Logistics

Find the Money – How a Transportation Spend Diagram Can Help. Guess Who Announced New Transportation Management Software (TMS) Functionality Yesterday. Taking a Holistic View on Inventory May Lead to Change in Strategy. The Panama Canal Expansion: The Impact on Logistics Strategies and Operations (1,410 views).

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What to Do Now Before the Panama Canal Expands

CH Robinson Transportfolio

The Panama Canal expands in 2016. If costs were all that mattered, these shippers would route their products through the expanded Panama Canal to reach Columbus via rail from the New York-New Jersey port. First, more inventory would be in transit at any given time. What will it mean for U.S.

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2024 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Prediction One

Supply Chain Matters

The increased cost of working capital and supplemental inventory levels to mitigate fulfillment risk is likely to revert back to just-in-time inventory management. Truck and rail transportation movements across the Mexico and U.S.