Chile Related Topics 
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 12, 2023
A mountain of discarded clothing, including Christmas sweaters and ski boots, cuts a strange sight in Chile’s Atacama, the driest desert in the world, which is increasingly suffering from pollution created by fast fashion. Some 59,000 tons of clothing arrive each year at the Iquique port in the Alto Hospicio free zone in northern Chile.
Logistics Viewpoints
AUGUST 19, 2024
A mountain of unsold fast fashion clothing items in the Atacama Desert in Chile has grown so large that satellites have captured clear images of it. Landfills in wealthy nations are not the issue. Fast fashion refuse is exported to the third world. Businesses, of course, seek to maximize profits. That is the heart of capitalism.
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Talking Logistics
OCTOBER 20, 2017
My trip to Chile this week in numbers: 34: the number of hours to travel there and back. 36: the number of hours I spent on the ground in Chile. 2: the number of chocolate ice cream cones I ate while in Chile. 4: the total number of hours I spoke (in Spanish!) during my three presentations.
Talking Logistics
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
Without further delay, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Walmart to Acquire Cornershop in Mexico and Chile, Further Investing in Last-Mile Delivery and Strengthening Omnichannel Strategy. All right, time to head to the airport. Germany’s Merck Introduces Automation to Supply Chain (WSJ – sub.
Talking Logistics
OCTOBER 6, 2017
I’ve never been to Chile. I’ll be doing both for the first time in a couple of weeks at Seminarium’s Logistics & Operations Conference 2017 (October 18th in Santiago, Chile). I’ve never given a supply chain presentation in Spanish.
E2open
JANUARY 19, 2023
Key findings from the latest e2open Ocean Shipping Index include: The top ports contributing to Export Time Performance improvement when considering all global ports are Tuticorin, India; Valparaiso, Chile; Los Angeles, U.S., Vancouver, Canada, and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Talking Logistics
JANUARY 14, 2016
Ricardo gave a simple example to illustrate this point: If I am an importer in Chile — which is the best of importing worlds in Latin America, with import processes similar to those in the U.S. Dealing with this mosaic of operating environments is one of the challenges that shippers and logistics service providers face in Latin America.
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