Tag Archives: supply chains

California Sustainable Freight Action Plan

California has released its Sustainable Freight Action Plan. It’s a great project, and as usual, the state is a leader, here making significant moves guiding improvement in the freight transportation triple bottom line.

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Source: California Sustainable Freight Action Plan  Read it online at the link. Here’s the actual plan:  pdf-icon-logo1  cfmp_appendix-complete

screenshot-metrans CITT logo 2016-05-23 10-59-49   Here’s a white paper from California State University Long Beach which was used in the deliberations.  PDF icon logoFreight Efficiency White Papers_Final Version

Rx: Port Decongestant

Fascinating viewpoint on the federal efforts to address problems at ports.  To me, it’s right on target. Wrong folks involved.  Think bigger, wider.

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The Secretary of Commerce received recommendations from her department’s Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness (ACSCC). The paper: Recommendations to the Secretary of Commerce Re…

Source: Rx: Port Decongestant | MTS Matters

Re-Wiring Global Supply Chains

Is reshoring going on?  A study by Morris Cohen and a colleague.

Offshoring, reshoring, nearshoring – manufacturing and supply chains around the world are undergoing some seismic locational shifts, many of which the conventional wisdom did not see coming, and for reasons that may surprise you.

Source: The Re-Wiring of Global Supply Chains – Supply Chain 24/7