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Unease Remains in U.S. East and Gulf Coast Labor Talks

Supply Chain Matters

As a result of mediated collective bargaining, port operators agreed to raise their offer of wage hikes to a 62 percent increase over six years of a new contract ending the three day walkout. Some industry reports point out reluctance to route January 2025 import volume via east coast ports because of ongoing uncertainty.

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The 2022 Chlorine Shortage: Another Year of Poolmageddon

ToolsGroup

Image source: Cape Analytics. Labor shortages and transportation struggles as a result of the pandemic impeded production even further, resulting in a true chlorine shortage. Chlorine production was burned again in January 2022, when yet another fire damaged a pool supply plant in New Jersey. between 2021 and 2026.The

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Why Evolved Supply Chain Management Relies on Actionable Analytics and Meaningful Logistics Intelligence

Intelligent Audit

Actionable analytics and meaningful logistics intelligence are essential elements in freight. Actionable analytics gather large volumes of data and interpret it in a meaningful way, translating it into effective business strategies. Constant disruptions aren’t anything new. What’s Happening: Shipping Disruptions Continue.

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Shipping Containers and Supply Chain Snarls: Is There a Way Out?

Enterra Insights

Correspondent Bill Whitaker ( @BillWhitakerCBS ) reported, “Getting the goods from here to store shelves is proving to be a lot more daunting. These boxes were called ‘Transporters.’ Rather, it was to reorganize and link intermodal transport by land and sea in a way that no one else had realized before.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 27 – December 1, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Logility Acquires Halo Business Intelligence to Expand Advanced Analytics. Descartes Reports Fiscal 2018 Third Quarter Financial Results. Kane Is Able Purchases Vintners Logistics. Albertsons teams with Instacart to offer one-hour delivery (Supermarket News). Drones and driverless cars were in the news again this week.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 10-14, 2014)

Talking Logistics

We normally do our Talking Logistics episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but we have one today at 12 ET with Alaster Love from Transplace, where we are going to discuss “ Big Data and Analytics in Oil and Gas Transportation.” September 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI).

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History and Evolution of Supply Chain and Logistics

SCMDOJO

Also, traditional logistics focuses its attention on activities such as procurement , distribution, maintenance, and inventory management. The First: The Transportation Era (1950s). The Fourth: Transportation, Deregulation, Physical Distribution and Business Logistics (1980s). The 1950s – The Transportation Era. .