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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

The most obvious impact was the disruption of traffic and transportation. According to a widely cited framework by Christopher and Peck from “Building the Resilient Supply Chain” (2004), supply chain resilience consists of four dimensions: robustness, agility, redundancy, and flexibility.

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Toilet paper and total war – the psychology of shortages and what it means for resilience

Logistics in War

The difficulty experienced in obtaining basic household products – toilet paper for example – as consumers buy in preparation for a state of quarantine that may never come, as trite an issue as it may be, starkly demonstrates how critical human behaviour is in the calculus. Hoarding will occur. 1] Eccles, H.,

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Marketing Small Business Tips: 6 Tips to Improve Your Small Business 

GoShip Blog

billion monthly users , Facebook remains the biggest social media platform since its launch in 2004. This will help you learn more about your customers’ needs and the steps you should take to meet them. Facebook: With more than 2.38 More importantly, when they respond, listen to them.

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Panama’s Export Business Thrives

Now, That's Logistics

“The impact of this strong performance has been reflected in other parts of the world as well, principally in the ports of the East Coast of the United States,” AJOT reports, “which are in various stages of deepening and expanding their channels to meet the growing number of Neopanamax vessels now transiting the Canal.”.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Attracting Millennials to Manufacturing: Understanding Millennial Experience in Order to Gain Talent

GlobalTranz

Editor’s Note: As an older Millennial who landed in Transportation Management & Logistics marketing, our target audience are manufacturers who ship freight. I figured, we pepper in some tips on transportation management, but if we also offer value to manufacturers, they would turn to us as the experts. Role of Social Media.

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What US truck shippers need to watch in 2019 and Beyond

ShipLilly

Most meet in the middle and predict that for the remainder of the year, and well into 2020, those rates will go up between 3-5%. Transportation intelligence has noted upper single digits for the last three months and then a quick deceleration, and a potential for receding prices near the end of this year.

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China car transporters: Axle position looks set to move centre stage

Automotive Logistics

The era of the overloaded car transporter in China – the ‘aircraft carriers’, as some have referred to them – is entering its final stages this year. The introduction of regulation 1589 (2016) on trailer dimensions , which replaces 1589 (2004), is being implemented in two phases.