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BNSF aims to grow carload traffic with rail service upgrades

Freight Waves

Participating lines include Genesee & Wyoming’s Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway, Burlington Junction Railway, Genesee & Wyoming’s Portland & Western Railway, TNW Corporation’s Texas Northwestern Railroad and Red River Valley & Western, and Watco’s Timber Rock Railroad.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 5-9, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Delivery eBike Debuts In Portland, Ore. MyWebGrocer and Descartes Combine Solutions to Help Grocers Drive Ecommerce Growth and Profitability. Acquires enVista’s Capacity Solutions Brokerage Division. According to the press release: This new electrically-assisted tricycle began delivering packages in Portland, Ore.,

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From Materials to Practices: Sustainable Purchasing Groundswell At The SPLC Summit 2019

EcoVadis

Portland has a reputation as a sort of sustainability mecca, so it was certainly an apt site for the SPLC’s annual Summit. The two perspectives were on display in the Tuesday morning panel session on “Leveraging Supplier Sustainability Ratings Within Public Sector & Private Sector Purchasing.” for a tender).

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How To Start Your Brewery On The Path To Success

Unleashed

Leveraging the best manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, maximising productive efficiency, and accessing management expertise early , are the strategies that will set the best apart. Brewery software: Enterprise Resource Planning for brewers. Brewery software features to look for. Auditing your business.

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Energy Efficiency Is Key to Better Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

Retailers such as Walmart have rigorous standards and will only purchase from suppliers who meet these standards. This solution has not been overlooked by logistics companies. UPS has tested this model in Portland, Pittsburg and Ft. Reducing energy costs often reduces GHG emission. The ROI of Natural Gas. In the U.S.,

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29 warehouse & automation experts share insights on how warehouse robots will impact industry employment

6 River Systems

From greater flexibility and scalability to productivity gains, a faster ROI compared to other automation solutions and better resource management, warehouse robots are changing the face of warehousing. Southern California is an expensive place to operate, so many of their manufacturing customers have embraced robotic solutions.

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A Complete Breakdown of the 26th State of Logistics Report

GlobalTranz

Ultimately, less space to store goods, which haven’t been purchased and shipped yet, results in higher cost of storage. Unfortunately, others have seen container traffic come to a dead halt, as was the case in Portland, Oregon. In the first quarter of 2014 showed national warehouse occupancy stood at 93.3