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Logistics helps North Carolina Reach CNBC Best State Status Again

Kanban Logistics

That extends to logistics as NC has lower costs for industrial space, lower labor costs, and lower transportation costs (i.e., Lower logistics costs: As noted by FORBES , North Carolina ranks #4 in the U.S. in terms of favorable business costs. access to lower-cost rail, and the ability to reach 70% of the U.S.

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Tompkins International Selects 3G Continental from 3Gtms

Tompkins Blog

SHELTON, CT, and RALEIGH, NC — 3GTMS , Inc., SHELTON, CT, and RALEIGH, NC — 3GTMS , Inc., Our distribution network design services play a key role in optimizing cost and service, so it’s critical to have a rating tool that provides accurate LTL base rates,” says Gene Tyndall, Executive Vice President of Tompkins International.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 22-26, 2019)

Talking Logistics

Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation. Here’s a video of the drone in action: This news follows last month’s announcement by UPS that it is collaborating with Matternet to deliver medical samples via unmanned drones at WakeMed’s flagship hospital and campus in the Raleigh, N.C. over distances of up to 12.5

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

The Freightos System is SaaS for freight contract management, automatic price quotations, and business intelligence. US Army uses the “Transporter” container, developed four years earlier for removals, for Korean War supply movements. First intermodal cargo transportation (containers are stacked on deck).

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

US Army uses the “Transporter” container, developed four years earlier for removals, for Korean War supply movements. First intermodal cargo transportation (containers are stacked on deck). With the growth of transpacific trade, McLean teams with Southern Pacific Railroad to build the first double-stack train car.

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Webinar On Demand Archives - Tompkins International - Tompkins.

Tompkins Blog

A Blueprint for Supply Chain Optimization This webcast delves into the process of a successful network design initiative and the outlines the steps necessary for success. 6870 Perry Creek Road, Raleigh, NC 27616. |. Learn how technology, people and processes all come together to help guide the process. 800-789-1257. |.

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SCRC Meeting – Tom Linton’s “Supply Chain Eight” and Golden Winged Warblers : Questions Every New CSCO Should Ask Their CEO

NC State SCRC

In addition, I advocated that organizations need to begin to think through their strategy, given the likelihood that tariffs and global trade uncertainty is likely to become a permanent issue. Co-location of supply chains will reduce disruptions, complications with transportations, government regulations, etc.