Category Archives: Logistics

Mega-Ships and Mega-Problems

Posted on April 23, 2015 by | Leave a comment

Very large ships are part of a system.  Changing the ship size radically affects many other parts of the system, such as which ports are usable.

Container Shipping Today: Mega-Ships and Mega-Problems.

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Trip Report – NASSTRAC 2015

Posted on April 17, 2015 by | Leave a comment

The always interesting Dan Gilmore reports on the NASSTRAC conference. Note his remarks on trucking, which covers a wide spectrum of issues in that business. It seems that trucking is one of those areas in the forefront of logistics problems today.

Supply Chain News: Trip Report – NASSTRAC 2015.

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A Clearer Path to LTL Carbon Footprints

Posted on April 17, 2015 by | Leave a comment

LTL transport is varied and lots of aspects are difficult to quantify. And carbon footprint is one of those annoying measures that not only needs to be estimated for the truck, but also for each shipment in it.  Advances in modeling this are always welcome, and here is a new one sponsored by C. H. Robinson. It’s available free from inside the article, from CH Robinson’s website.

A Clearer Path to LTL Carbon Footprints | Supply Chain @ MIT.

More on this:  Article in Supply Chain 24/7

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