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10 Disruptive Issues in the Supply Chain

American Global Logistics

Volatility and uncertainty in the logistics industry have dominated the news in 2024. Persistent Red Sea Risks Continue to Disrupt Critical Trade Route The ongoing conflict in Yemen has created several shipping risks in the Red Sea. In particular, there is a risk of Houthi rebels laying mines in the shipping lanes.

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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

GlobalTranz

Many off-shore manufacturers have returned to the U.S., Those changes, along with high costs of transporting materials and finished goods to and from overseas locations, make the value of reshoring likely to become a compelling financial reality for many manufacturers. for example, compared to shipping state-to-state.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 8 – 14)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. More than 70 percent of Toyota Motor Manufacturing , Alabama’s power will soon be generated by the sun. In Tennessee, some of the EVs are also humanless Pods that use Einride’s artificial intelligence technology to haul goods. The Einride Pods are monitored remotely.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 14-18, 2014)

Talking Logistics

DHL launches new logistics service for life sciences products handled at extremely low temperatures. Penske Logistics Joins CargoNet to Enhance Supply Chain Security. I wrote those words in December 2010 , one of my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2011. drug enforcement officials. hospital beds within four hours.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 31 – January 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

Welcome back to the Friday news roundup, where we are excited to bring you all the logistics news you’ve been craving. This creates a higher shipping cost and is not as environmentally friendly as shipping the one item back in a smaller package or as part of a consolidated return.” I’ll cheers to that.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

FedEx Helps Small Businesses Streamline Shipping with fedex.com Integration Manager. Labor and management work out deal at Port of LA/Long Beach ( Logistics Management ). 20 Years of Highway Data Shows Roads and Bridges Aren’t Crumbling ( Reason.org ). EU Energy Chief Sees Hurdles to Carbon Overhaul ( Wall Street Journal ).

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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

The topic of the meeting was the logistics to launch of the AMR Research Top 25. Only 29% of manufacturers easily manage total cost trade-offs. I don’t think so; yet, there is an IBM sponsored whitepaper from the University of Tennessee sharing insights from Mondelez leadership in supply chain management. The reason?

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