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This Week in Logistics News (March 13 – 19)

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Washington farm exports crimped by cargo-container shortage. A coalition of countries is pitching a plan to the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization (IMO) to require global shipping companies to raise funds for an effort to deploy widescale fleets of zero-carbon emission cargo ships within a decade.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

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Target’s inventories at the end of the last quarter were 16 percent lower than the same period a year ago and Walmart cut inventories in its U.S. Inventories at U.S. They include Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington state. So, wish me luck in securing authentic University Blue Jordan IVs.

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This Week in Logistics New (May 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

Labor unions are celebrating a bill signed into law in Washington state that offers new protections to warehouse workers, pushing back against fulfillment productivity quotas in the very state where retail giant Amazon first set the standard for lightning-fast delivery windows.

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Let the Holiday Shopping Madness Begin!

Kinaxis

Import cargo volume at major retail container ports has been increasing steadily and is on track to meet or surpass last year’s levels. According to the Washington Post , the American retail industry is expected to add around 755,000 temporary workers during October and November—the same number as previous years.

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Supply Chain Best Practices: Preparing for the Worst

Elementum

With contingency plans in place, the company announced that it had a healthy inventory supply of finished products and did not foresee a risk to patient supply at that time. This inventory glut crowded warehouses, eventually forcing companies to cut back on their new orders to clear out their backed-up storage facilities.

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146 days until Christmas - Are you ready?

Cathy Roberson

Consumers couldn’t get enough of buying goods since the pandemic occurred in 2020, and shippers struggled to keep enough inventory on hand once pre-pandemic inventories were depleted. As a result, many retailers are sitting on excess inventory. This year, everything seems to have changed again.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 1-5, 2016)

Talking Logistics

As reported by The Seattle Times , “Amazon will fly its latest Boeing 767 widebody jet freighter, publicly revealing the new ‘Prime Air’ branded livery of its fast-growing fleet of used cargo planes” at today’s Seafair aerial display over Lake Washington near Seattle. The video below shows the jet freighter getting painted.