The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

He resides, with his wife of 38 years, Nancy, in Dallas, TX, Baltimore, MD, and Saranac Lake, NY, and on Water Island, USVI. Larkin is married and is the proud father of four adult children (Conor, Clifford, Casey, and Sarah Alexandra).

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Unleashed

APRIL 11, 2024

Baltimore bridge disaster adds new stress to global supply chains. If dead stock is consuming vital inventory space in your warehouse try bundling your slowest-moving items with best-sellers. US manufacturing activity expands for first time since 2022. The latest ISM Manufacturing PMI report registered an unexpectedly high 50.3%

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 2, 2015

It will be available soon in New York, Baltimore, Miami, Dallas, Austin, Chicago, Indianapolis, Atlanta and Portland. According to the press release: The Stack Sleeve system can be used in the warehouse and during delivery for both route and bulk customers from one vehicle. You can work as much or as little as you want.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 11, 2024

It has been just over two weeks since a container ship lost power and crashed into a support pylon of Baltimore, Maryland’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early morning hours of March 26. miles to partially collapse into the Patapsco River , blocking the main shipping channel that leads to the Port of Baltimore.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 18, 2013

BMW to Mazda Imports Slowed as Strike Shuts Baltimore Port ( Bloomberg ). Earlier this week, for example, I commented on the partnership between Amazon and P&G , where Amazon has set up operations inside P&G warehouses to fulfill online orders. As a result, the answers to “What is a warehouse?”

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2024

The PDE’s job is to do a smarter job of selecting the right box, bag, or wrapper for each of the millions of unique items sold through the company’s warehouses. For several years now, the e-commerce giant has been developing what it describes as a “multimodal AI model” called the Package Decision Engine.

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Freight Plus

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Amazon’s safety record scrutinized after Baltimore warehouse tragedy. "[You] have to ask us both that question at the same time. And I'm not about to answer that question without them," he said. Two Amazon contractors died last Saturday after a tornado collapsed a 50-foot concrete wall.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

With the new expansion, Amazon is rolling out same-day delivery to Prime members in Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Tampa, Charlotte and Houston, bringing the total markets served to 12. In these markets, shoppers will be able to place orders online throughout the day, then have items on their doorstep in as fast as five hours.

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Transportation and logistics professionals are urged to contact the American Logistics Aid Network , if you can help provide trucks, trailers, or warehouse space. Baltimore to Charlotte added 36¢ at $1.89 Rates below include fuel surcharges and are based on real transactions between brokers and carriers. per mile.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 24, 2015

My first job was a warehouse supervisor trainee for a public warehouse (nowadays a 3PL), in Baltimore, Maryland. I added a second major in transportation and logistics and, for a full armoury, added a third in production operations and management.

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DAT Solutions

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Allentown, PA, was once a major manufacturing town, but it has emerged more recently as a popular location for warehouses and distribution centers, especially at this time of year. for dry vans out of Allentown on November 28, and there were more van loads posted there than for either Philly or Baltimore.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

warehouses. Earlier this week, the company warned officials in Maryland that it plans to close two delivery stations next month in Hanover and Essex, near Baltimore, that employ more than 300 people. And what a glorious season it is. Amazon temporarily shuts down solar rooftops at all US facilities. Instacart acquires Rosie.

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Multichannel Merchant

JUNE 6, 2022

Walmart said the first facility, opening this summer in Joliet, IL, outside Chicago, will feature an automated, high-density storage system from Knapp, a provider of AI-driven warehouse and robotics and automation that will double both the storage capacity and number of orders processed.

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Cargo ships were re-routed or delayed en route to and from ports from Savannah to Baltimore. on Friday, as the re-scheduled freight emerged from warehouses and headed east and north. In mid-September, we were focused on evacuating the Carolinas and diverting trucks and freight away from Hurricane Florence. Outbound ratios rose from 5.0

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Kanban Logistics

MARCH 29, 2024

All of us at Kanban Logistics are deeply saddened by this week’s tragic accident at the Port of Baltimore. According to CNBC , in the wake of the catastrophic bridge collapse at the Port of Baltimore, ocean carriers are shifting responsibilities onto U.S. Shared warehousing. What’s Happening Now? What’s Happening Now?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2021

In the US, the top industries most impacted by this incident include grocery stores, department stores, auto and home supply stores, hardware stores, surgical and medical equipment suppliers, plumbing, heating and air-conditioning, semiconductor, general warehousing and storage, trucking, and sporting goods.

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Freight Plus

JANUARY 31, 2019

DHL claims that the warehouse robots that they’ve already invested in have increased order picking productivity by 100%. Truckers protest Baltimore port delay times. In addition, the company plans to enhance their WMS system. In May, DHL Americas Innovation Center will open in Chicago.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 12, 2024

As retailers have adjusted to limits on the use of the Panama Canal and the Red Sea, we now face the shutdown of the Port of Baltimore to vessel traffic. With 12 miles of conveyor belts and thousands of robots to automate goods processed in the facility, it is Amazon’s first highly automated warehouse in the state.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 19, 2024

Walmart in the news: Walmart launches pilot program for customers to recycle reusable shopping bags Walmart Canada says robots are coming to 2 Ontario warehouses, but jobs not at risk Amazon has become the largest private EV charging operator Biden calls for steep hike to tariff on Chinese steel S. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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