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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

McLean purchases a steamship and a railroad terminal company. Grace Line had instituted the first international service, US to Venezuela, in 1962. Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports. With the growth of transpacific trade, McLean teams with Southern Pacific Railroad to build the first double-stack train car.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

McLean purchases a steamship and a railroad terminal company. Grace Line had instituted the first international service, US to Venezuela, in 1962. Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports. With the growth of transpacific trade, McLean teams with Southern Pacific Railroad to build the first double-stack train car.

Shipping 120
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How the Bakken Oil Boom Impacts U.S. Supply Chains

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Libya, Iraq, Russia, and Venezuela have all seen incredible political turmoil as significant oil producers, yet diesel prices have stayed in a tight range for the last 12 months and are currently $0.065 per gallon cheaper than this time last year. Here is a short video of one such oil train in St.

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Podcast: Roberto Reichard on Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Capital Projects

Requis

I’m an engineer by training. I had the opportunity to work in Turkey, Egypt and in Venezuela. This is how I learned about the concept of “retained carbon”, or embodied carbon, which is essentially the carbon that is used in the extraction and manufacture of materials used in a project. I then decided to go back to school.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling & Logistics

Jim Shephard, president, Shephard’s Industrial Training Systems. ? The latest smart manufacturing concept that we developed and demonstrated is the robot-on-a-cart concept for autonomous assembly or conveyer tending. Tan Miller, director of the Global Supply Chain Management Program, Rider University. ? I asked in all innocence.