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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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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. The supply chain’s little-known weakest link: railroad workers. Nations aim to secure supply chains with “friend-shoring”. But I just read an article about another labor shortage Walmart is facing: store managers.

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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. Surface Transportation Board on the merger with Kansas City Southern. .

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This Week in Logistics News (July 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

Starting this week, customers across the US will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages , with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.

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Rates and Demand Are Still High for Refrigerated Freight

DAT Solutions

Those, combined with the supply chain disruptions caused by the hurricanes, have led to tight capacity in southern Idaho, and outbound rates continue to climb out of Twin Falls. Chicago to Kansas City also had a big increase at $3.48/mile, Reefer rates on the lane from Sacramento to Portland soared 70¢ to $3.42/mile.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 17 – 23)

Logistics Viewpoints

billion to one-up rival’s bid for Kansas City Southern railway. In the report, NRF Vice President for Supply Chain and Customs Policy Jonathan Gold said: “We’ve never seen imports at this high a level for such an extended period of time. Shortage of ocean containers shows no sign of easing. CN offers $33.7