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Breakbulk Americas with Jeff Tucker

The Logistics of Logistics

Jeff Tucker and Joe Lynch discuss the Breakbulk Americas conference. Jeff is the CEO of Tucker Company Worldwide , the oldest privately-held freight brokerage in North America, specializing in notoriously complicated freight, like temperature-controlled, oversized, and high-value, high-security shipments. About Jeff Tucker.

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

NC State SCRC

Today’s Wall Street Journal article on the impact of the Texas winter storm on the petrochemical industry highlights many of the challenges that exist with this supply chain, that has been overlooked for perhaps too long. This caused disruptions to multiple industries. One of the big bottlenecks is nitrogen and refrigerants.

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Breaking Supply Chain News- Panasonic Plans an Additional EV Battery Production Facility in the U.S.

Supply Chain Matters

The report added that Oklahoma would be a geographic advantage in that it is in proximity to Tesla’s recently opened volume production facility in Austin, Texas. Part of Broader North America Based EV Supply Network Investments. manufacturing facility somewhere in Oklahoma as well.

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Now or Never: Why Supply Chain Sustainability is Non-Negotiable in 2022

Locus

It is worth noting that North America has a much higher emission intensity than sub-Saharan Africa, despite Africa being significantly larger and housing more countries. In the case of manufacturers, it means procuring green and sustainable raw materials. parts per million, in comparison to the 1960 levels of 316.91

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New Developments Among Electric Vehicle Automotive Players

Supply Chain Matters

An added challenge has been the ramp-up of new manufacturing facilities in Austin, Texas and Berlin Germany. There are added considerations for expanding this same supply network vertical integration model to North America. Regarding these two new facilities, CEO Elon Musk recently described them as “ gigantic money furnaces.”

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This Week in Logistics News (October 15-19, 2018)

Talking Logistics

The system will initially be focused only on intrastate loads in Texas, but the company plans to expand beyond Texas in the coming months, says Max Pike, strategy lead at Uber Freight. Instead of waiting to load and unload a dedicated trailer, Powerloop envisions an expedient drop and hook system. About 30% of Anheuser-Busch’s U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

Aside from health and wellness products from Walgreens, prescription pet medications from easyvet and first-aid kits from Texas Health, Wing’s drones will also deliver pints of ice cream from Blue Bell Creameries. At the same time, the number of suppliers in China that received procurement bids declined by 9 percent in 2021.