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

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain resilience is crucial for ensuring the continuity of business operations, the delivery of essential goods and services, and the protection of public safety and national security. Robustness is the ability of a supply chain to resist disruptions and maintain its normal operations.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

Now operating in its fifth station, Flytrex’s three-minute delivery service will be available to approximately 140,000 customers across the United States. since 2004, hit an all-time high of 4,586 points in late March. This sounds like another example of supply chain whiplash (start and stop) to me.

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Deliveries are Booming, but so are Fuel Prices

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In fact, the recent surge in oil prices is the biggest since 2004. Similarly, the scale of their operation means that any fluctuation in fuel costs will have an enormous impact on their profit margins. Fuel prices in the US have increased by more than 30 percent over the past year.

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Logistics of Olympic Games

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

It seems to be great news, but almost every time, the cost of this exceptional logistics operations are underestimated, and the financial balance of the event isn’t achieved. Being partner of the Olympics is a great marketing operation – you can see below how UPS used it as a “green washing campain” for London 2012.

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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. The ADF has experienced this ‘tradition’ in the past.

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The hazards of Ammonium Nitrate and 100 years of related disasters

Shipping and Freight Resource

The examples are Kriewald , Morgan , Oppau , Tessenderlo , and Traskwood. Tonnes: Port Neal fertilizer plant explosion : At about 6:06 AM on December 13, 1994, two explosions rocked the Port Neal, Iowa, ammonium nitrate processing plant operated by Terra Industries. Date:March 9, 2004. Date:May 24, 2004. Tonnes:25.

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The debris of an organisation – thinking about how the ADF recovers from the first losses of war: Part One

Logistics in War

It is rare that these planners, considering the capability needs that will make the ADF successful in its operations, think as to exactly how the ‘debris of an organisation’ can succeed. The first part of this paper applies examples to articulate concepts and ideas relevant to understanding the reality of war.