Supply Chain Digest

APRIL 21, 2021

Suez Canal Holding Beached Cargo Until Ship Owner Pays Up. Big Rival Bid for Kansas City Southern. Prices for New and Used Shipping Containers Surging. Dollar General Bets on Brick and Mortar Sales

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

based Kansas City Southern , pending full regulatory approvals which is expected sometime this year. Surface Transportation Board on the merger with Kansas City Southern. . American Shipper reported last week that the number of container ships calling on major U.S. East Coast Ports the Likely Next Test.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 23, 2024

The order calls for the Canada Industrial Relations Board , a termed independent body, to impose binding arbitration on both Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference. Both railways were ordered to resume operations while the arbitration process initiates.

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Elementum

MAY 13, 2015

The route is part of the the Kansas City Southern (KCS) network and is one of a few new options carriers like Maersk (the company Walmart contracts) have started to provide as an alternative to the West Coast port congestion. Before the mega-retailer started shipping goods through Lazaro Cardenas, the KCS had fallen on hard times.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 12, 2015

Many of Freightquote’s 80,000 customers are small businesses or consumers with irregular shipping patterns. It also increases our market share with small businesses and significantly expands our presence in the Kansas City market. Most do not have the deep infrastructure to source transportation services in a multitude of lanes.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The shipping industry, which accounts for 80% of world merchandise trade, had a record year in 2021 , with volume totaling 179.1 Share of Global Shipping Vessels Arriving on Time. The boom was great for shipping lines’ profits, but port congestion sent on-time reliability to all-time lows. from 2020 and a 5.4% in the U.K.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 21, 2015

Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland and Chicago have already moved to raise their wages and there are proposals for minimum wage increases across the country including in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Kansas City, MO. . domestic parcels -- with identical rates and delivery times as if shipped from within the U.S. –

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DAT Solutions

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The biggest spike was the lane from Chicago to Kansas City , which surged 49¢ up to $3.10/mile. Demand is still extra-high out of potato-shipping regions ahead of Thanksgiving, but rates from Twin Falls, ID, to Phoenix dropped 27¢ to an average of $2.74/mile. Chicago to Minneapolis also climbed 21¢ to $2.76/mile.

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DAT Solutions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

It also snowed in Chicago, Omaha, and Kansas City, but nobody gets quite so worked up about that. Those cities tend to have systems in place to plow the roads and keep them safe. Major e-commerce providers have promised free shipping on all orders, and some of their delivery commitments are pretty aggressive.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 23, 2023

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DAT Solutions

MARCH 6, 2019

The West Coast is starting to see the freight that shipped from China after the Chinese New Year celebrations ended. port for those ships, and that freight was already being loaded onto trucks last week. Last week prices moved higher on 51 lanes, while 41 lanes were lower and 2 were unchanged, compared to the previous week.

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DAT Solutions

APRIL 11, 2017

Houston to Oklahoma City cooled, falling 15¢ to $1.73/mile. Miami continued to ship lots of reefer roads, while Lakeland in the central part of the state joined the Florida parade. We expect load counts to pick up there and in the border market of McAllen, TX , with avocados shipping ahead of Cinco de Mayo.

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DAT Solutions

APRIL 11, 2017

Houston to Oklahoma City cooled, falling 15¢ to $1.73/mile. Miami continued to ship lots of reefer roads, while Lakeland in the central part of the state joined the Florida parade. We expect load counts to pick up there and in the border market of McAllen, TX , with avocados shipping ahead of Cinco de Mayo.

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Multichannel Merchant

JANUARY 5, 2022

Walmart launched InHome in October 2019, starting in Pittsburgh, Vero Beach, FL and Kansas City. “Identifying ways to help our customers save time and money is our purpose, and nothing showcases that better than InHome delivery, which is why we’re excited to bring the convenience of InHome to even more customers in 2022.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 20, 2022

Autonomous cargo ship completes 500-mile voyage. In our last piece of autonomous vehicle news, the “world’s first” autonomous commercial cargo ship has successfully completed a near-500-mile voyage in the congested waters of Tokyo Bay, traveling without human intervention for 99 percent of the trip.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 25, 2021

George Brett of the Kansas City Royals hit a home run in the ninth inning of a game to give his team a last inning lead against the New York Yankees. The business ships out of three warehouses strategically located across the US; that number is expected to grow to ten by the end of 2021.

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Freightera

APRIL 23, 2019

So shipping in advance literally pays in many cases. Please note: The average price of rail / intermodal freight is about 40% less than shipping by truck, but you need to plan more in advance. Delivery: Kansas City, MO. Please note: The rates change depending on the pickup date. Ask us: 800 886 4870 Ext. 2,293 USD.

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Freightera

MAY 22, 2019

Shipping in advance pays off! ??. If you have any questions about FTL, LTL, rail, or road freight shipping, give us a call at 800 886 4870 Ext. Please note: The average price of rail / intermodal freight is about 45% less than shipping by truck, but you need to plan more in advance, as rates change over time.

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Elementum

AUGUST 29, 2017

Rail freight networks operated by Kansas City Southern and Union Pacific in Texas, USA were heavily disrupted due to Hurricane Harvey, according to reports on Friday, August 25th. BNSF Railway reported that widespread flooding is causing major disruptions of service and operations in the Houston region.

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Resilinc

JULY 20, 2021

Closer proximity—as compared to Asia—alone could reduce shipping times and inventory costs, as well as the greenhouse gas emissions from ocean and air freight, according to the three. Given current road and rail conditions, a great deal of exports move north via ocean ships, which undermines the value of shifting supplier networks from Asia.

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Shipping by land can be less costly and more efficient than the ocean shipping from Asian countries on which the U.S. For example, the merger between Kansas City Southern and Canadian National railways—which if finalized will create a single freight rail network from southern Mexico through the U.S. supply chains.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Earlier this week, Dave Clark, CEO of Amazon’s worldwide consumer business, said that the company is poised to become the largest US package delivery service by early 2022, overtaking longstanding shipping rivals UPS and FedEx. billion of Kansas City Southern’s debt.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Instead, he will lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers into battle against the Kansas City Chiefs in the 55 th modern Super Bowl. And to make the field seem truly neutral, the NFL has announced that Tampa Bay will not be allowed to fire the cannons from their famed pirate ship after touchdowns and big plays.

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