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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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. Add poultry, dairy products, and refrigerated packaged foods to the mix for Thanksgiving, and demand for reefers should keep.

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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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MIT Supply Chain

MARCH 15, 2021

Thus, GM temporarily closed a Chevrolet plant in Shreveport, Louisiana, which made the (small) Colorado pickup truck. (As General Mills, for example, cut its Progresso soup line from 90 to 50 varieties and eliminated some flavors and package sizes of breakfast cereal.

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Freight Plus

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Hurricane Ida reared it’s ugly head leaving significant devastation both in the South in Louisiana, and also the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. If you are a shipper in the small package space, do be sure to look at the peak season surcharges recently announced.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 31, 2021

The supply of resins that impacted a number of different products we take for granted, like packaging, plastic injection molded parts, and other materials that are used across a number of different industries.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 23, 2013

New innovations include inline analytics, process-driven workflows, packaged event-response levers, consolidated demand signals and in-memory technologies. Its Control Tower solution for an equipment and supplies provider includes on-site staff in Houston, Oklahoma and Louisiana executing more than 75,000 truckloads per year.”.

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ShipBob

APRIL 17, 2020

Consumers stockpiling bottled water isn’t good for the environment, and we’re a greener option for people who want to have water available, using sustainable packaging for cleaner, plastic-free oceans.”. Connor suggested checking out the US government’s stimulus package. He already did his application for the loan.

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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Bindiya Vakil, a supply chain expert, wrote in the Harvard Business Review that storms exacerbated the shortage by shutting down Texas and Louisiana oil producers that process the chemicals used in manufacturing plastic. The Gulf Coast storms started with Hurricane Laura in August 2020 and continued with an ice storm in early 2021. .

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 14, 2021

Royal Mail will start using drones to deliver packages. The expanded waiver runs through May 31 and covers Alabama, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Georgia, parts of Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Descartes Systems acquires Portrix.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 7, 2014

Since a video is worth a thousand words, check out this short video of the WAVE: In related news, UPS announced plans to invest $70 million to purchase 1,000 propane package delivery trucks and install an initial 50 fueling stations at UPS locations. The vehicles on these routes can travel up to 200 miles on a tank of propane.

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Processing plants turn the chemical into polyethylene, the world’s most common plastic that’s used in garbage bags and food packaging. in Port Arthur by the Louisiana border. But it also lies at the heart of the $3.5 trillion global chemical industry, with factories pumping out 146 million tons last year, Kothari said Thursday.

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