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The Overarching Impact of COVID-19 on Supply Chains

Blue Grace Logistics

While social distancing norms are still in place across the transport industry, trade volumes have continued to skyrocket—mounting a challenge to the resiliency of the supply chain. Demand for transportation capacity has sustained record highs for nearly a year since the initial COVID-19 lockdowns.

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The Overarching Impact of COVID-19 on Supply Chains

Blue Grace Logistics

While social distancing norms are still in place across the transport industry, trade volumes have continued to skyrocket—mounting a challenge to the resiliency of the supply chain. Demand for transportation capacity has sustained record highs for nearly a year since the initial COVID-19 lockdowns.

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2020: a year like no other. So, what can the logistics sector learn in 2021?

Logistics Business Magazine

The Free Trade Agreement has established zero tariffs on goods but, with it, it has put up new barriers to the flow of goods, including fresh paperwork, customs checks, and health/standards checks for food and agricultural products and, consequently, added new costs to the expense of cross-border trading.

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NAFTA’s impact on U.S. meat industry

247 Customs Broker

agricultural sector is acutely aware that a NAFTA termination, and the higher tariffs expected to come with it, would erode the comprehensive supply chain optimization that has worked cohesively with NAFTA’s market access benefits and regionally tailored regulations to allow U.S. Withdrawal Complications. 1 foreign outlet for U.S.

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6 Types of Automation [Benefits, Pros/Cons, Examples]

Conger

It's ideal for medium-to-high production volumes and suitable for batch production processes such as factories making food variants. For example, full warehouse automation to support event-driven, mission-critical system delivery. Food and beverage processing What Are Industrial Automation Systems? What Is Industrial Automation?

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The detention, demurrage fee conundrum

247 Customs Broker

Peter Friedmann, executive director, Agriculture. Transportation Coalition. The last thing you want to be as a carrier is be strict on demurrage in the face of things like serious weather events. weather events.”. exporters. “If If they hadn’t abused it, we wouldn’t be there. Carriers and terminals can solve this.

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How to Get Your Forklift License: The Ultimate Guide [New in 2020]

Conger

Bonus Tip : The Fair Labor Standards Act prohibits anyone under 18 years old from operating forklifts in non-agricultural environments. How to construct, transport, stack, and unstack loads. You can present this certification to your employer in order to prove that you’ve already received operator training. Formal instruction.

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