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Lessons From the Front Line: 3 Hospitality Supply Chain Horror Stories

AFFLINK

Training, says Crumpacker. Xinia Camacho, reports Fusion , is a humble owner of a 20-room boutique in Venezuela. In recent years, the socialist country of Venezuela has been faced with a vanishing supply of consumer products, like toilet paper. How is the company proposing to make up for its inaccuracy in pork bearings?

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Is the “shared economy” changing logistics?

Kinaxis

by Alvaro Fernandez Did you know it costs approximately $100 to send an envelope from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to Caracas, Venezuela? The user is offered all of these with little to no initial investment, on either equipment or training. That’s for three to five day service! New York to London?

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How Many Slaves Are in Your Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

Provide company employees and management, who have direct responsibility for supply chain management, training on human trafficking and slavery, particularly with respect to mitigating risks within the supply chains of products.

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

Grace Line had instituted the first international service, US to Venezuela, in 1962. With the growth of transpacific trade, McLean teams with Southern Pacific Railroad to build the first double-stack train car. The first all double-stack train is developed by APL and UP Railroad. Nascent Asian-US trade drives the return service.

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How the Bakken Oil Boom Impacts U.S. Supply Chains

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Libya, Iraq, Russia, and Venezuela have all seen incredible political turmoil as significant oil producers, yet diesel prices have stayed in a tight range for the last 12 months and are currently $0.065 per gallon cheaper than this time last year. Here is a short video of one such oil train in St.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

Grace Line had instituted the first international service, US to Venezuela, in 1962. With the growth of transpacific trade, McLean teams with Southern Pacific Railroad to build the first double-stack train car. The first all double-stack train is developed by APL and UP Railroad. Nascent Asian-US trade drives the return service.

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Podcast: Roberto Reichard on Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Capital Projects

Requis

I’m an engineer by training. I had the opportunity to work in Turkey, Egypt and in Venezuela. We worked with suppliers to help them improve their safety programs and training programs, while at the same time helping them to shift their company culture to one based on safety. I then decided to go back to school.