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Types of Risks Impacting Supply Chains in 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

To look at what risks will affect the supply chain in 2018, Rob Savitsky of AIR Worldwide ( a member of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Supply Chain Exchange program), wrote a blog for MIT discussing three broad categories of supply chain risk. Natural Catastrophes.

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

Talking Logistics

In this week’s news… XPO Logistics Acquires Optima Service Solutions. TomTom launches toll reporting to help transport companies manage costs. This follows the company’s acquisition of 3PD this past July, another provider of heavy goods, last-mile logistics in North America. Robinson Enters Switzerland Marketplace.

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LTL Carrier Profile: Con-Way Freight

The Logistics of Logistics

The other operating units are: Menlo Worldwide Logistics and Con-Way Truckload. Menlo Worldwide Logistics is Con-Way’s supply chain division. Menlo provides supply chain solutions including: transportation management, warehouse management, and information technology.

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The Cost of Disaster

Elementum

million residents in Puerto Rico for more than three months, cost $90 billion, while Hurricane Irma, the most powerful Atlantic hurricane in recorded history, left 97 people dead and recorded losses of $50 billion. Rallying the Logistics Community. Hurricane Maria, which knocked out all power supply for 3.4

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Hurricane Florence: What We Know About the Year's First Major Storm

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The storm is expected to reach Puerto Rico on Friday morning with winds up to 73 mph. Storm surges make headlines, but they are just the beginning of potentially weeks of compromised delivery routes and warehouse operations. Get support from the logistics community.

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Hurricane Florence: What You Need to Know About the Year's First Major Storm

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The storm is expected to reach Puerto Rico on Friday morning with winds up to 73 mph. Storm surges make headlines, but they are just the beginning of potentially weeks of compromised delivery routes and warehouse operations. Get support from the logistics community.

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ALAN Continues to Provide Logistics Needs

3PL Insights

The humanitarian organization, American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN), has operated as a clearinghouse in delivering supplies and services to natural disaster areas, and has capabilities in delivering those services to multiple disaster areas. The post ALAN Continues to Provide Logistics Needs appeared first on Evans Distribution.