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How US ports may have contributed to the global lag in container turn around times

Shipping and Freight Resource

Given China’s systemic production cost advantage, which now averages 30% to 35% even when shipping costs are included, ” says a recent article from the Harvard Business Review. This alone has caused a severe delay in the US supply chain, which has since rippled throughout inland distribution systems. .

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Burying the hero – how logistics and readiness changed war

Logistics in War

This article looks at how logistics readiness has shaped military success and failures, created the nature of operations, and most certainly the capacity of militaries to be viable as a force. Logistics transformation – reducing the logistics footprint, Strategy Research Project, US Army War College, USA, 2002, pp 2-3 at [link]. [11]

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Burying the hero – how logistics and readiness changed war

Logistics in War

This article looks at how logistics readiness has shaped military success and failures, created the nature of operations, and most certainly the capacity of militaries to be viable as a force. Logistics transformation – reducing the logistics footprint, Strategy Research Project, US Army War College, USA, 2002, pp 2-3 at [link]. [11]

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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

IMPO Executive Editor, Anna Wells provides insights into the complicated issue in her article “Why The Manufacturing Skills Gap Is Serious”. For example, job training grants totaling $450 million were distributed among approximately 270 community colleges in 2014. Annually, 3.2 - 3.5 Improving relevant education — The U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 27 – March 3, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Those same words were also said when the ports were shut down for 10 days in 2002 , and again in December 2012 when 600 clerks went on strike , shutting down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for 8 days. “We cannot let this happen again,” is what the American Apparel & Footwear Association said in 2015. Guess what?