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Parcel delivery’s phantom peak-mageddon

The port congestion, rail bottlenecks and soaring costs that bedeviled many U.S. supply chains during 2021 didn’t become headline news until the fall. With the holiday shopping season looming, the mainstream media couldn’t get enough of stories linking supply chain problems with the potential for stockouts and late or missed deliveries.

By the end of the year, the non-trade press folks had quietly left the scene with few, if any, horror stories to report. That’s because the holiday delivery...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/parcel-deliverys-phantom-peak-mageddon

BlueGrace’s Detroit office to facilitate managed services growth with local talent

Between customer demand for electric vehicles, chip shortages, and environmental, social and governance initiatives, the already complicated automotive supply chain has gone through a whirlwind of changes — changes likely to cost the industry north of $100 billion in revenue in 2021.

For third-party logistics provider BlueGrace Logistics, these generational changes to the automotive supply chain influenced the decision to open its 11th office last week in Detroit to serve as a “control tower”...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/bluegraces-detroit-office-to-facilitate-managed-services-growth-with-local-talent

Supply chain-mageddon? Hardly, says Economist Miller

Jason Miller has come not to bury America’s supply chain, but to praise it. Almost to the hilt, in fact, given the extreme circumstances.

There is no doubt some supply chains are under pressure due to long-standing structural issues, said Miller, associate supply chain professor of logistics at Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business. Rather than being evenly distributed, the nation’s warehouse footprint is concentrated in a handful of select markets that are attractive to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/supply-chain-crisis-economist-miller-says-relax

Management ‘by surprise’

Did you know that the U.S. rail industry had a chance to be the freight industry leader in offering customers a robust cargo tracking and shipment exception service?

Yes. Between 1992 and 1994, three of the largest Class I railroads were united with American President Lines and Amtech Logistics Corp. in a venture to capture car movement data and package it for their customers’ supply chain management needs. It would have provided “freight car location messaging” (CLM in railroading terminology)...

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