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A Robert Hall survey of more than 2,800 senior managers shows that hiring is expected to pick up during the rest of this year as companies add new positions and seek to fill ones that were vacated during the height of the Covid 19 pandemic. At least 51% of…
For many years the trucking industry has sought to address the worsening shortage of qualified heavy-duty truck drivers by seeking to recruit drivers who are younger than the 21-year-old minimum age currently set by federal regulation. The American…
The disaster that followed the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack brought home to everyone just how vulnerable our national supply chain is, but many don’t realize that these assaults on logistics providers have been going on for years. On June 2, the…
The gathering energy of the economic recovery has put pressure on ports for the same reason that your great-grandfather may have given for investing in real estate – no one is making more land. Add governmental and environmental challenges that can add as…
Arising from revelations during the pandemic about how dependent the U.S. is on foreign imports, President Biden issued an Executive Order to study supply chain security in four major industries. The President ordered a 100-day review of dependency on…
The intersection of Interstate 95 and SR 4 in Fort Lee, NJ, is once again the No. 1 freight bottleneck in the country, according to the American Transportation Research Institute. ATRI includes the information in its 2021 Top Truck Bottleneck List, which…
There were 5,333 fatal work injuries recorded in the United States in 2019, a 2% increase from the 5,250 in 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. The 5,333 fatal injuries in 2019 represent the largest annual number since 2007. According to BLS,…
Before the pandemic took hold in 2020, trucking operational costs dropped in 2019, according to the American Transportation Research Institute. The industry experienced a decline in freight shipments in 2019. That changed after the Covid 19 pandemic hit, the…
Logistics providers and other cold supply chain participants received government warnings in early December that hackers were targeting the Covid 19 vaccine distribution of the Pfizer product, just as it was beginning to be given to front line medical…
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To remain competitive in an ever-changing environment, chief supply chain officers (CSCOS) need to apply four advanced strategies to develop and train supply chain talent, according to Gartner. “Despite the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many…
The American Logistics Aid Network presented its 2020 Humanitarian Logistics Awards at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals EDGE annual conference. The ALAN Outstanding Contribution to Disaster Relief Awards went to: Uber Freight for moving…