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Book Review: Logistics Clusters-Delivering Value and Driving Growth

Supply Chain Opz

Book Review: Logistics Clusters-Delivering Value and Driving Growth. Recently, Ive found the new book called " Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth ". Professor Yossi Sheffi is the director and founder of Master of Engineering in Logistics Program at MIT. The Story of Logistics Clusters. "

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This Week in Logistics News (April 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. tractor fleet and sourcing 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, according to the press release. British supermarkets source peppers exclusively from Spain during the winter months. billion cumulative square feet of flat, sunny rooftop space — or about twice the area of Memphis, Tenn.,

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Freight Market Update and Q2 Trucking Outlook

Zipline Logistics

“The markets with the largest gains this week in OTVI.USA were Laredo, Texas (12.07%) Memphis, Tennessee (5.37%) and Cleveland (5.08%). In short, we expect it to be difficult to source capacity in the coming months until contract rates edge toward spot rates and the market finds a new “normal.”

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Hub Group acquires Exel Transportation Services

Supply Chain Network

(NASDAQ: HUBG), one of the nation’s leading freight transportation management companies, announced today that it purchased Exel Transportation Services (ETS) for $83 million before post closing adjustments. ETS is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hub Group, operating independently under the name Mode Transportation.

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Enabling Innovation Groups To Sell More Effectively to Operations Leaders

ThroughPut

We do it throughout entire industries, enabling leaders to smooth-out their Supply Chains, lean-out their Logistics, optimize their Operations, and maximize their Manufacturing throughput, all with their existing teams and often disaggregated data sources.

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East and West Coast Ports to Battle for U.S. Region After Panama Canal Expansion

CH Robinson Transportfolio

In fact, the battleground on which ports compete for customers will likely expand and move several hundred miles west, toward Chicago and Memphis. Robinson, Wide Open: How the Panama Canal Expansion is Redrawing the Logistics Map. Source: Boston Consulting Group. The post East and West Coast Ports to Battle for U.S.

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East and West Coast Ports to Battle for U.S. Region After Panama Canal Expansion

CH Robinson Transportfolio

In fact, the battleground on which ports compete for customers will likely expand and move several hundred miles west, toward Chicago and Memphis. Robinson, Wide Open: How the Panama Canal Expansion is Redrawing the Logistics Map. Source: Boston Consulting Group. Authors include: Steve Raetz from C.H.

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