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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

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million vehicles cross the bridge annually, or about 30,000 per day, according to the Maryland Department of Transportation. Wing is a part of Google parent company, Alphabet, that offers automated delivery drones to transport smaller packages from businesses to homes. An estimated 11.5 Franklin St., through the DoorDash app.

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Bringing Science to ‘Sell By’ Dates

Enterra Insights

Bethany Moncel ( @Budget_Bytes ), a cook and freelance journalist, reports, “Packaged foods often include a printed calendar date that is identified by the words Sell By, Use By, or Best Used By. Abani Pradhan, another co-author of the University of Maryland paper, indicates hope may be on the way for confused consumers.

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Supply Chain Risk: It’s Not Whether Severe Weather, but When

Enterra Insights

”[1] To learn how much of a concern climate change is becoming for supply chain operations, Resilinc partnered with the University of Maryland and other academics to answer questions like: “How exposed is our global supply chain network? Which critical sites have the highest exposure in terms of revenue impact?

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How Shippers Use Carbon Emissions Shipment Data to Reduce Total Carbon Footprint

Intelligent Audit

Ozone Transport Region (OTR) NOx Cap and Allowance Trading Program: The OTR includes the Northeastern United States with Maryland, Delaware, Washington, D.C., and the top of Virginia. Controlled by the Ozone Transport Commission (OTC), it includes the region’s NOx cap and trade regulations. g CO2 per ton-mile and 0.9

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This Week in Logistics News (August 12 – 18)

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However, for one man in Maryland, none of that matters. The 65-year-old Accekeek, Maryland man bought 15 identical tickets for the same lottery drawing. without any extra packaging. Customers typically are able to choose at checkout if they want extra packaging or prefer their order without it.

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Hurricane Florence Update: Impacts, Forecasts, and Operational Best Practices

Elementum

UPS postponed deliveries and pickups in evacuation zones, but is helping large customers make contingency plans for packages that are in risk zones. Response: State of Emergency declarations were already made in the states of Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. In North Carolina, Gov.

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From Lab to Arm: Supply Chain Journey of the COVID-19 Vaccines

BlueYonder

We recently had two industry and supply chain experts join us to discuss this topic during a LinkedIn Live session: Fab Brasca, Blue Yonder GVP of Global Solutions, and Suresh Acharya, Blue Yonder Scientific Advisor and the University of Maryland Professor in Business Analytics. and also the case/special packaging.