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Supply Chain & Logistic News (August 19th – 23rd) 

Logistics Viewpoints

The stoppage is set to “cripple shipments” of grain, potash, and coal while also slowing down the transport of petroleum products, chemicals, and autos. Department of Transportation, rail transport accounted for 14% of total bilateral trade of $382.4 According to the U.S. billion in the first half of the year.

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Supply Chain Risk Management with Barry Conlon

The Logistics of Logistics

He moved from Ireland to Texas and became a citizen in 2011 About Overhaul Founded in 2016 and with offices around the world, Overhaul is the only device-agnostic supply chain visibility and risk management software company.

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The Global Trade Compliance Market is Crazy!

Logistics Viewpoints

Many multinationals have engineered their global supply chains to minimize taxation by creating subsidiaries in low taxation nations like Switzerland, Ireland, and Singapore. Secondly, one core supply chain application is a transportation management system. That approach to taxation engineering is less potent than it used to be.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 1-5, 2017)

Talking Logistics

I’m still catching up from my week on the road, and getting ready to head out again next week to speak at the Manhattan Associates conference (I’ll be speaking on “A Brave New World: Transport to the Future”), so I’ll just share some of the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week without commentary.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 18 – 24)

Logistics Viewpoints

According to FedEx, the tight labor market added $450 million to costs, including increased overtime, higher wages to attract workers, and extra spending on transportation. This is adding expenses for new truck routes and additional third-party transportation companies.

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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day 2020

Enterra Insights

The Great Irish Famine devastated Ireland from 1845 to 1849. As a result, the population of Ireland dropped from 8 million people before the famine to 4.4 This figure represents around 25 times the number of people actually living in Ireland today. Today people in the U.S. million in 1911. Patrick’s Day. ”[6].

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Multimodal 2020: Sustainability in supply chains takes centre stage

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

Sustainability issues within global supply chains will take centre stage at Multimodal 2020, the UK, Ireland, and Northern European freight transport, logistics and supply chain management event, which is set to take place for the 13th year running at the NEC in June.