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Ever Given Freed from the Suez Canal but Impact on Global Trade Continues

3PL Insights

This article explores the answers to these questions. In 2006 the Okal King Dor became stuck in the canal due to sandstorms and high winds causing the ship to drift at an angle into the banks. Although this isn’t the first time a ship has blocked passage through the canal this has turned into one of the costliest events.

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Top 5 Free Online Resources for Freight Brokers

GlobalTranz

Less obviously, weather and note applications allow you to keep track of weather events which may affect your freight and jot down business ideas whenever inspiration strikes. The same site even has another excellent article with more business plan resources for freight brokers.

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The Zara’s logistics process

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

All other manufacturing activities, including labor-intensive finishing stages, are completed by a network of over three hundred subcontractors, each specializing in a part of production or a type of article. Emerald, 2006. These subcontractors work exclusively for Zara. Resources: BARNES, L. & & LEA-GREENWOOG, G.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

Magazine article) as a goliath looking to take on the entrenched "David" shipping industry. We hope you find the following information interesting and helpful. As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. Significance. Did You Know That …. Significance.

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Same concerns remain, when it comes to the truck driver shortage

247 Customs Broker

If it has not been for you, then perhaps you have going to different events. Related Article: “The never-ending truck driver shortage” But what got me thinking about it, again, was quarterly data issued by the American Trucking Associations (ATA) this week. It is our job after all.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

247 Customs Broker

Great article. Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. Good article! Lora, great article!

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

247 Customs Broker

Great article. Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. Good article! Lora, great article!