Category Archives: Sustainability

Shanghai port, world’s busiest, grapples with traffic congestion

Posted on April 21, 2017 by | Leave a comment

Fog is causing massive congestion at the Port of Shanghai.  Over 100 ships are waiting to berth.  Not fun.  Will shippers stop using Shanghai?

Source: Shanghai port, world’s busiest, grapples with traffic congestion

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Posted in Logistics, Ports, Shipping, Supply Chains, Sustainability

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Cities seek deliverance from e-commerce boom

Posted on April 21, 2017 by | Leave a comment

An eye-opening article via The Loadstar. Over 17% of urban congestion is delivery trucks. The USPS now delivers 5.1 billion packages a year. That is over 10 packages each.

I know I am responsible for a lot more than that.

The source article is below.

Source: Cities seek deliverance from e-commerce boom – The Loadstar

  It’s the flip-side to the “retail apocalypse:” A siege of delivery trucks is threatening to choke cities with traffic. But not everyone agrees on what to do about it.

Source: How Cities Are Coping With the Delivery Truck Boom – CityLab

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Automating Supply Chain Resilience – High on Your Digital Agenda?

Posted on February 11, 2017 by | Leave a comment

Can we use software and analytics to help insure supply chain resilience?  MIT and others are doing a lot of study in this area.  and so are a lot of companies.  This will be a growth area for software companies who come up with clever solutions that can be integrated with existing data and systems and which actually work. Entrepreneurs, start your engines!!

Here is the survey mentioned in the article: cse-2016-final-dsciwhitepaper-resilience

Source: Automating Supply Chain Resilience Should Be High on Your Digital Agenda

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Posted in Advanced Computing, Production Operations, Service Management, Supply Chains, Sustainability

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