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

Conger

Programmable automation is code-based, allowing for excellent precision Programmable automation is most used in systems that produce similar items using the same automated steps and tools. It's ideal for medium-to-high production volumes and suitable for batch production processes such as factories making food variants.

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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. exporters. “If If they hadn’t abused it, we wouldn’t be there. Carriers and terminals can solve this. Carriers and terminals.

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Trade tension tariff activity figures to be in effect for more than a while

247 Customs Broker

The heightened and somewhat frenetic pace of tariff activity is ostensibly full-throttle all the time these days, and this week’s events are clearly no exception. Jeff works and lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, where he covers all aspects of the supply chain, logistics, freight transportation, and materials handling sectors on a daily basis.