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
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.
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.
QAD
JANUARY 23, 2024
We started very small with QAD just in Chile, and we have been growing in different countries and with different offices. Right now we have offices in Chile and Argentina, and from there we support other countries. And so we have been growing — almost double in sales and in people each year.
Supply Chain Network
FEBRUARY 16, 2013
Colby Chiles, Director, Transportation, The Home Depot; A roundtable discussion of emerging issues and trends with service providers and retailers. Multichannel Roundtable & Strategy Panel – Susan Kleinman, Senior Director, Comscore; Brent Beabout, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain,Office Depot, Inc.;
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