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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

Highly lethal bird flu found in Kentucky and Virginia flocks. The words “ avian flu ” often trigger alarm bells for the majority of the population, as was evident with the avian flu outbreaks in the US that led to the culling of hundreds of thousands of chickens and turkeys in 2015 and 2017. Well, the avian flu looks like it is back.

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Thanksgiving 2018

Enterra Insights

As governor, he presided over the first Thanksgiving feast and described it thusly: “And besides waterfowl there was great store of wild turkeys, of which they took many, besides venison, etc. ” From that first feast, turkey has been the one staple continuously gracing Thanksgiving tables through the centuries.

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Minnesota turkeys are stuffing outbound trucks

DAT Solutions

The Land of a Thousand Lakes is also the number-one state for turkey production, by a wide margin. So it's no big surprise that the Minneapolis market area was also the land of a thousand loads (per day) in the first half of November, as fresh turkeys got stuffed into temp-controlled trailers during the run-up to Thanksgiving.

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Logistics helps North Carolina Reach CNBC Best State Status Again

Kanban Logistics

The Port of Virginia in Norfolk is also accessible to much of Eastern North Carolina. Prime East Coast location: North Carolina sits in the middle of the East Coast, midway between Miami and Boston, with easy access to several vital interstate highways like I-95, I-85, and I-40. in terms of favorable business costs.

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 3.4-3.8

Freight Plus

States from Maine to West Virginia experienced heavy snow that dumped over a foot of powder in some Northern areas, including over 16” in Boston. Lucky turkey thankful after carve up with trucker’s windshield. Meanwhile, Midwestern states are contending with deadly cold, ice, and wind as temperatures drop to -35 degrees F and below.