Louisiana - Supply Chain Brief

The 2022 Chlorine Shortage: Another Year of Poolmageddon

ToolsGroup

MAY 17, 2022

At the mercy of Hurricane Laura, the Louisiana production plant was completely eradicated. Unlike the Louisiana fire, the plant wasn’t completely leveled (minimizing the long-term impact on the chlorine shortage), but the fire still resulted in the loss of 100,000 pounds of chlorine tablets. Image Source: USA Today.

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New Orleans Goes Dark as Hurricane Ida Slams into Louisiana

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 29, 2021

Tropical Storm Ida pummeled New Orleans and the Louisiana coast overnight with lashing rain and ferocious gusts, leaving much of the region without electricity and bracing for widespread floods.

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Winter Alert: Winter Weather Conditions Developing Across Much of the US

GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The Louisiana Department of Transportation reported that all state-maintained roadways, except for I-20 and I-49 (sections that remain open), in the seven-parish Northwest region were deemed impassable because of winter weather conditions. Parts of I-35 in Oklahoma are closed. All westbound lanes of I-40 near Albuquerque, NM are closed.

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POOLCORP Selects ToolsGroup to Improve Supply Chain Resilience

ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Headquartered in Louisiana, POOLCORP serves roughly 120,000 wholesale customers around the world. With more than 4,500 employees and over 400 locations worldwide, POOLCORP is the world’s largest wholesale distributor of swimming pool supplies, equipment, and related leisure products.

ToolsGroup

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Defying?Ida: Prospects for?Disaster Recovery?for Oil and Gas

Requis

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

As I write this blog, Louisiana is in the?earliest?stages The people of Louisiana are?resilient,?and stages of recovering from Hurricane Ida.?I I have spent the past few days trying to reach?family,?friends,?and and colleagues to?confirm confirm that?they they are safe, and to check on their homes. resilient,?and

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Halloween 2021 Predictions

Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 20, 2021

” Zone 5 – South Central (Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico): “Expect a chilly Halloween, with increasingly cloudy skies and stormy conditions for Arkansas and Louisiana. Pick a costume that incorporates an umbrella!” Watch out for zombies!”

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Deep Freeze Forces U.S. LNG Exporters to Cancel, Delay Cargoes

Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Cameron LNG export plant in Louisiana canceled at least one scheduled shipment while other deliveries from Cameron and Cheniere Energy’s Corpus Christi facility in Texas were also delayed

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Customer Advisory on Hurricane Harvey

TMC

AUGUST 31, 2017

As the unprecedented flooding and impact from Hurricane Harvey continues to be felt throughout Houston, SE Texas, and into Louisiana, the extent of the damage and cleanup efforts needed is becoming more clear. With the weather moving to the east, the Louisiana DOT is also reporting road closures near Lake Charles and the surrounding areas.

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Louisiana Grapples With Fuel Shortage After Ida Shut Refineries

Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As utility crews strive to restore power to New Orleans, one of hurricane-ravaged Louisiana’s most pressing needs is fuel.

Louisiana

Inbound Rates Rise for Louisiana Flood Relief

DAT Solutions

AUGUST 19, 2016

It won't surprise anyone to learn that rates rose sharply on inbound lanes heading into Southern Louisiana last week. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Melissa Leake, August 15 2016. I will share a couple of graphs from DAT RateView : 1. Shreveport to Baton Rouge.

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This Pride, I’m Respecting the Privilege of Coming Out

BlueYonder

JUNE 2, 2021

As a gay man who grew up on a dirt road in rural Louisiana during the ‘80s, I’ve needed enormous amounts of courage my entire life — the courage to stand up to bullies, the courage to come out to my conservative, religious parents, the courage to move across the country and live a life that’s open and free.

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Force Majeure claims by suppliers are on the rise. Have you checked or revised your clause?

Resilinc

MAY 25, 2021

Large polymer producers from LyondellBasell in Louisiana to Chevron Phillips Chemical in Texas declared the hurricane a FM event. A major one was Hurricane Laura in August, 2020, which shut down 10% to 15% of the U.S. production of polyethylene and polypropolyene, raw materials for a vast range of goods and packaging.

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7 Reasons Panama is the Latin American Supply Chain Capital with Demo Perez

The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 9, 2019

Long ago the country found a free trade agreement from Louisiana, translated it into Spanish, and implemented it. Panama is the most competitive market in Latin America and the US dollar is used. [31:22] 31:22] What’s the fifth reason? The free trades zones that we have. There’s now a free trade zone being developed in the airport. [33:20]

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Hope for Offshore Wind Boom in Gulf of Mexico Dims with Low Bids

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 29, 2023

Gulf LLC won a 102,480-acre (41,472-hectare) tract near Lake Charles, Louisiana for $5.6 RWE Offshore U.S. million after just two rounds of bidding.

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Customer Advisory on Hurricane Harvey

TMC

AUGUST 31, 2017

As the unprecedented flooding and impact from Hurricane Harvey continues to be felt throughout Houston, SE Texas, and into Louisiana, the extent of the damage and cleanup efforts needed is becoming more clear. With the weather moving to the east, the Louisiana DOT is also reporting road closures near Lake Charles and the surrounding areas.

San Antonio

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Customer Advisory on Hurricane Harvey

TMC

AUGUST 31, 2017

As the unprecedented flooding and impact from Hurricane Harvey continues to be felt throughout Houston, SE Texas, and into Louisiana, the extent of the damage and cleanup efforts needed is becoming more clear. With the weather moving to the east, the Louisiana DOT is also reporting road closures near Lake Charles and the surrounding areas.

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Element 25 Agrees to Supply GM with Manganese Sulfate

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 30, 2023

GM will loan E25 $85 million to partially fund the construction of a new battery-grade manganese sulfate processing facility located in Louisiana.

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Supply Chain Responds to Hurricane Harvey

APICS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

The storm parked itself over the Houston area for five straight days and dumped more than 50 inches of rain before heading east to Louisiana on Wednesday, The For the past week, U.S. weather news and supply chain news have been focused on Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm that made landfall in southeast Texas last Friday night.

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The North American Battery Supply Chain is Getting Amped Up!

QAD

OCTOBER 4, 2022

They also released details on a lithium hydroxide refining plant they want to build in Texas or Louisiana. Recently, Tesla discussed diverting battery manufacturing equipment meant for Berlin, to Austin. On the consumer EV front, the IRA provides up to $7,500 in federal tax credits for the purchase of an EV.

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Blockchain: Preventing E. Coli Through Enhanced Traceability

Kinaxis

JUNE 29, 2018

While investigators traced the heads of lettuce from the prison back to a Yuma business called Harrison Farms, “they haven’t been able to reconstruct the path of the chopped lettuce that made people sick from Washington state to Louisiana to Connecticut,” McKenna writes.

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Emergency Freight: What Harvey Tells Us About Irma

DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Harvey hit Houston on Friday evening, August 25, and hung over the metro area for days, dumping more than 50 inches of rain on Southeastern Texas and Southwestern Louisiana. So Atlanta, Charlotte, Memphis and other regional hubs were moving freight to Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma, because Houston couldn't do it.

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Hurricane Harvey Updates

Elementum

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Harvey downgraded to a tropical depression on Wednesday night, August 29 but heavy rains and life-threatening flash floods are expected to continue in and around Houston, Beaumont/Port Arthur, eastward into southwest Louisiana for the rest of the week. Here’s What You Need To Know: EFFECTS. All residents and workers within 2.4

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No Hurricane Has Hit U.S. Energy Markets Quite Like Ida Has

Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Gulf of Mexico oil and natural gas production is back online after Hurricane Ida battered southeast Louisiana, marking an even slower comeback than in the wake of Katrina. Just over 20% of U.S.

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Building the Future of Your Supply Chain

QAD

JUNE 6, 2019

QAD Explore 2019, the company’s premier customer conference connecting its global community of leading manufacturers, recently took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was a pleasure to attend.

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Making Sense of the Post-Pandemic Economy… Will We Ever Return to “Normal”?

NC State SCRC

JULY 9, 2021

Resin prices spiked, but continued to stay high, as there were massive hits taken by the plants on the Louisiana cost. If a hurricane hits the Louisiana coast, we could see some devastating effects.” This is due to the lack of demand for these products in Asia.

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New Tariffs and Their Effect on International Shipping

GTG Technology Group

OCTOBER 10, 2018

For example, the tariffs make Louisiana especially susceptible to job loss because one in six jobs in the region depends on international trade and commerce transactions. The regulations are estimated to reduce the total economic output through the Port of Louisiana – America’s largest port – by a minimum of 7 percent.

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Transportation Optimization: The Key to Weathering Droughts, Disasters and Other Disruptions

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The Mississippi River has reached historically low water levels , endangering fresh water supplies in Louisiana but also raising concerns about its long-term viability as a shipping route. In a recent earnings call, energy company Avance Gas admitted to paying $2.4 million to win an auction and get to the front of the line.

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Did The Barbie Movie Cause a Worldwide Pink Paint Shortage? The Supply Chain Explanation

Resilinc

JULY 21, 2023

Meanwhile, Hurricane Laura hit Louisiana in August of 2020 with Hurricane Zeta coming a month later. Polymer suppliers did not have the resources to satisfy demand, and the price of epoxy resins rose 170% from before the pandemic to 2021.

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Alternatives to UPS and FedEx

The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Lone Star Overnight primarily ships to Texas, Oklahoma, western Louisiana, and southern New Mexico, although it also ships to California and Mexico through its shipping partnerships. Headquartered in Minnesota, it also specializes in overnight delivery and operates over 1,300 pieces of equipment.

Ohio

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Alternatives to UPS and FedEx

The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Lone Star Overnight primarily ships to Texas, Oklahoma, western Louisiana, and southern New Mexico, although it also ships to California and Mexico through its shipping partnerships. Headquartered in Minnesota, it also specializes in overnight delivery and operates over 1,300 pieces of equipment.

Ohio

Ohio West Virginia North America Minnesota

Alternatives to UPS and FedEx

The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Lone Star Overnight primarily ships to Texas, Oklahoma, western Louisiana, and southern New Mexico, although it also ships to California and Mexico through its shipping partnerships. Headquartered in Minnesota, it also specializes in overnight delivery and operates over 1,300 pieces of equipment.

Ohio

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The Big Texas Chemical Freeze Raises Issues on Resiliency of the Petrochemical Supply Chain

NC State SCRC

MARCH 17, 2021

Almost all packaging today is petroleum based, and in the lower 48 states, the bulk of refineries (which feed petrochemical plants) are in the Texas and Louisiana region, (see map). This caused disruptions to multiple industries.

Texas

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Hanjin, Hurricanes, Harvests May Boost Truckload Rates

DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

recently due to flooding in Louisiana and Texas, as well as a hurricane in the Florida panhandle. Missed schedules could keep rates high well into November, when the holiday freight season would ordinarily start to wind down. Weather Events, at Home and Abroad. We have seen disruption in the U.S.

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Tropical Storm Nate: What You Need to Know

Elementum

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Four states in the Southeast have declared a state of emergency as the storm approaches including 29 counties in Florida , six counties in Mississippi , the state of Alabama , and the state of Louisiana. By Thursday evacuation orders had been issued in several parishes in Louisiana, including Jefferson and St. Evacuations Ordered.

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Well Prepared Retailers Seize Opportunity for Advantage during Port Closures

Supply Chain Collaborator

JULY 14, 2015

The retailers surveyed for this post categorically reported heavy reliance on their TMS solutions to effectuate the quick and seamless shift in shipping lanes from origin points in California to origin points in Louisiana, Georgia and New York.

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Honoring Who That Little Queer Boy Was Meant To Be

BlueYonder

JUNE 15, 2022

As you can imagine, growing up as a queer kid in rural Louisiana in the ‘80s was hard. And that story is how I begin to explain to anyone the journey of self-discovery that the COVID-19 pandemic helped expedite. I’d love to tell you about it.

Just-in-Time

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Freight Gathers Strength in Early November, Led by Western Region

DAT Solutions

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Weather events , including flooding in Louisiana and the Carolinas, which generate demand for emergency relief, followed by construction supplies and equipment. Strong produce harvests , with declines in California being offset by strong numbers elsewhere. Some economic improvement , as indicated in recent ISM and other reports.

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Outbound Tender Rejections Increase for the First Time Since March Peak

Zipline Logistics

MAY 12, 2020

Louisiana has a shelter-in-place order in place through May 15. Currently, some vendors have reopened with limits so shippers could face some logistics difficulty in Louisiana. However, when currently shipping to or from Kentucky, you should ensure your supply chain partners are operational. Status: Partially Open.

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Doing Business in the United States

QAD

MARCH 21, 2019

The only state exception is Louisiana, whose legal system is based on the Napoleonic civil code. is comprised of 50 states and one district (Washington D.C.). The legal system is based on English Common law at the federal and most state levels. Donald Trump has been the U.S. president since 2017.

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Freight Volume Rebounds to Pre-Pandemic Levels

Zipline Logistics

MAY 19, 2020

Louisiana ? . Louisiana ’s shelter-in-place order expired on May 15 and businesses can start to reopen?with Currently, some vendors have reopened with limits so shippers could face some logistics difficulty in Louisiana. are operational until the end of May. . Mostly Open?? . with precaution.??? .

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Logistics Market Stays Flat as May Begins

Zipline Logistics

MAY 5, 2020

Louisiana . Louisiana has a shelter-in-place order in place through May 15. Shippers could face some logistics difficulty in Louisiana. If shipping to or from Kentucky, ensure your supply chain partners can handle freight. . Status: Restricted . After which, businesses can start to reopen slightly. .

Rhode Island

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What is Supply Chain Compliance and Why is it Important?

AB&R

JANUARY 10, 2019

California. Connecticut. District of Columbia. Massachusetts. Mississippi. New Hampsire. New Jersey. New Mexico. North Carolina. North Dakota.

Rhode Island

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The Increasing Role of Climate Change in Supply Chain Disruptions

NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Almost all packaging today is petroleum based, and in the lower 48 states, the bulk of refineries (which feed petrochemical plants) are in the Texas and Louisiana region. During the freeze, it took a whole week for recovery after the storm that caused disruptions to multiple industries.

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What is causing the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain disruption?

NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Various other states, like Colorado and Louisiana, faced similar hiccups, but this time due to power outages causing their refrigeration system to crash. Specialty RX, a supplier of Moderna vaccine in Ohio, was suspended from future vaccine allocations, after mishandling about 900 doses of the vaccine, exceeding recommended temperature range.

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The 2022 Chlorine Shortage: Another Year of Poolmageddon

New Orleans Goes Dark as Hurricane Ida Slams into Louisiana

Trending Sources

Winter Alert: Winter Weather Conditions Developing Across Much of the US

POOLCORP Selects ToolsGroup to Improve Supply Chain Resilience

Defying?Ida: Prospects for?Disaster Recovery?for Oil and Gas

Halloween 2021 Predictions

Deep Freeze Forces U.S. LNG Exporters to Cancel, Delay Cargoes

Customer Advisory on Hurricane Harvey

Louisiana Grapples With Fuel Shortage After Ida Shut Refineries

Inbound Rates Rise for Louisiana Flood Relief

This Pride, I’m Respecting the Privilege of Coming Out

Force Majeure claims by suppliers are on the rise. Have you checked or revised your clause?

7 Reasons Panama is the Latin American Supply Chain Capital with Demo Perez

Hope for Offshore Wind Boom in Gulf of Mexico Dims with Low Bids

Customer Advisory on Hurricane Harvey

Customer Advisory on Hurricane Harvey

Element 25 Agrees to Supply GM with Manganese Sulfate

Supply Chain Responds to Hurricane Harvey

The North American Battery Supply Chain is Getting Amped Up!

Blockchain: Preventing E. Coli Through Enhanced Traceability

Emergency Freight: What Harvey Tells Us About Irma

Hurricane Harvey Updates

No Hurricane Has Hit U.S. Energy Markets Quite Like Ida Has

Building the Future of Your Supply Chain

Making Sense of the Post-Pandemic Economy… Will We Ever Return to “Normal”?

New Tariffs and Their Effect on International Shipping

Transportation Optimization: The Key to Weathering Droughts, Disasters and Other Disruptions

Did The Barbie Movie Cause a Worldwide Pink Paint Shortage? The Supply Chain Explanation

Alternatives to UPS and FedEx

Alternatives to UPS and FedEx

Alternatives to UPS and FedEx

The Big Texas Chemical Freeze Raises Issues on Resiliency of the Petrochemical Supply Chain

Hanjin, Hurricanes, Harvests May Boost Truckload Rates

Tropical Storm Nate: What You Need to Know

Well Prepared Retailers Seize Opportunity for Advantage during Port Closures

Honoring Who That Little Queer Boy Was Meant To Be

Freight Gathers Strength in Early November, Led by Western Region

Outbound Tender Rejections Increase for the First Time Since March Peak

Doing Business in the United States

Freight Volume Rebounds to Pre-Pandemic Levels

Logistics Market Stays Flat as May Begins

What is Supply Chain Compliance and Why is it Important?

The Increasing Role of Climate Change in Supply Chain Disruptions

What is causing the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain disruption?

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