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This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

Same-day delivery is not currently available in Alaska, Colorado, Iowa, Maine, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming, and delivery of orders containing alcohol is currently limited to select stores in Illinois and Florida.

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Crime is Adding to Supply Chain Woes

Enterra Insights

1 as it passed through Wyoming. ” Ziobro and Lovett report that criminals specifically look for boxcars loaded with packages from Amazon, FedEx, and United Parcel Service. .: “ Train robberies date to the dawn of railroads, and Union Pacific has had its share of famous heists. A posse was sent out in pursuit of the bandits.

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

In 1902 he moved to Kemmerer, Wyoming, in order to become a one-third owner of a general store called Golden Rule. I saw bins of window curtains in another part of the building; all were from Amazon, many in packages that hadn’t been opened. In fact, America’s true refund pioneer was born a century before Hsieh, on a farm in Oklahoma.

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Where Did the Loads Go?

DAT Solutions

A shortage of trucks yielded a high load-to-truck ratio that also turned the map red in Wyoming and Maine, despite low freight volume, and a brief surge in New Mexico was not generating any more new loads this week. Commodities include frozen and fresh packaged foods. Little Rock has strong volume, with a ratio of 19.3 loads per truck.

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What is excise duty? A guide for alcohol producers

Unleashed

The duty payable depends on the type and amount of alcohol, and also the type of packaging and commercial arrangements for its sale. As an example, the tax per litre on packaged beer is $2.26, while the tax on draught beer is $1.50 WET and GST in Australia.

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What’s the Hold-up with COVID Vaccinations? Don’t Hold Your Breath…a 2021 Prediction

NC State SCRC

But then you have this huge gap in the center of the country – the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, New Mexico, parts of West Texas – where there isn’t a lot of cold storage capacity. Using data from the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation, we identified what the public refrigerated warehouse map actually looks like.