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Fragility of Infrastructure Highlighted Again After Baltimore Bridge Collapse

MTS Logistics

The fragility of our infrastructure is in the news again this week with Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. It throws another spotlight on the fragile nature of the global supply chain which has already been strained by several incidences including the drought in Panama and missile attacks by Houthi militants in the Red Sea.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

This year, 88 percent of participating retailers reported that the pandemic resulted in an increase in overall risk for their company. The company created Project Gigaton in 2017 to engage suppliers and other stakeholders up and down the supply chain to reduce carbon emissions. Walmart to buy Alert Innovation.

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Ecommerce Order Boom Boosts KION Despite Slashed Revenues

Logistics Business Magazine

KION Group says it has recorded strong order intake in the first half of 2020 thanks to the e-commerce boom, despite a 10% drop in revenue caused by the pandemic and a 50% year-on-year drop in earnings versus 2019 H1. percent to €4.400 billion in the first half of 2020, despite the coronavirus pandemic. percent to 5.2

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

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Yossi Sheffi of MIT is certainly one of the most influential and I would add interesting figures in supply chain today. Of late, about every three years he produces a new supply chain-related book, the last two being complementary takes on supply chain resilience and risk management.

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Trusting the market will stay afloat

Automotive Logistics

To meet with storage demand in the future, it is imperative that all stakeholders in the supply chain work together to smooth the nautical chain and enhance the terminal efficiency to create more flexibility and space.”. During last year, Zeebrugge held its position as the biggest car handling port in Europe, with 2.8m