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This Week in Logistics News (May 14 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

We’ve all been talking about the looming supply chain talent shortage for quite some time. Autonomous cargo ship completes 500-mile voyage. The supply chain’s little-known weakest link: railroad workers. Nations aim to secure supply chains with “friend-shoring”.

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COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict Global Supply Chain News Capsule March 23 2022

Supply Chain Matters

In this Supply Chain Matters March 23 rd edition of our COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict News Capsule, we provide updates to ongoing industry supply chain developments and disruptions of concern to our reading audience. based Kansas City Southern , pending full regulatory approvals which is expected sometime this year.

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America Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Planes, Cranes, and Barges: How America Is Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos. s industrial heartland is dotted with examples of how some links in the supply chain have been adapted to keep the wheels of commerce turning while others seized up. Share of Global Shipping Vessels Arriving on Time. Businessweek.

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Billion Dollar Port Plan Brings Mega-Retailer To Mexico

Elementum

Walmart Explores Mexico’s Supply Chain. Despite these drawbacks, Walmart is continuing to bank on Mexico’s supply chain. Before the mega-retailer started shipping goods through Lazaro Cardenas, the KCS had fallen on hard times. Mexico’s $5 Billion Port Facelift.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Egypt’s Suez Canal blocked by huge container ship. Port congestion has caused a lot of shipping delays over the course of the last year. This week, a giant container ship the length of four football fields has become wedged across the canal, blocking traffic in both directions. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Investing in regional supply chains

Resilinc

In a June 2021 Harvard Business Review article and in this blog , Resilinc CEO Bindiya Vakil and her co-authors Tom Linton and Dale Rogers argued that more robust and sophisticated Pan-American supply networks are critical destinations on the roadmap to drive greater resilience, sustainability and agility in U.S. supply chains.

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Webinar Recap: The Case for a Pan-American Manufacturing Ecosystem

Resilinc

In the decades since, Linton and his teams at IBM, LG, Flex and other companies have driven billions in annual procurement to China and other Asian countries, helping to create the Asia-centric manufacturing supply chains of today. Now, Linton believes those supply chains must change.