A strategic partnership with the USC Marshall Center for Global Supply Chain Management aimed at improving the global competitiveness of the nation’s supply chains was signed by U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker.
The closest thing to a good old fashion bi-partisan infrastructure bill is about to go to the president. The bill, H.R. 5303, the Water Resources Development Act of 2016 (WRDA), contains an inventory of Corps of Engineers projects and the continuation of an effort to the prioritizing harbor and inland waterway projects on the basis [...]
Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti railway will officially open service on Wednesday to become Africa's first electric railway. The 752-km railway links the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa and the port of Djibouti in the Gulf of Aden country Djibouti. It will offer both passenger and freight services, although the operations will be freight-only at the outset.
In a recent Los Angeles Times article, “Robots could replace 1.7 million American truckers in the Next Decade” goes into some detail on what the motor carrier industry has been looking at for awhile-addressing the driver shortage through some level of automation.
In the course of our work, GLDpartners has amassed a compilation of industry intelligence on major sectors in the global economy. Over the next several months, we will be posting industry intelligence updates that seaports, airports, inland logistics centers and economic developers should find valuable as they work to understand how their customer base is changing. The first one up is the pharmaceutical industry.
GLDPartners is pleased to announce that Dale Miller has joined the firm to head its engineering/ infrastructure and development planning work
Well, to those that have suggested that Brexit is but a minor issue and that self-interest and common-sense geopolitics would yield little negative impact to the UK economy - someone should tell the UK automobile industry to not worry. And from what we've been hearing from non-automakers there is fairly widespread concern in the corporate community about potential impacts of Brexit to trade.
Amazon: Another Parcel Competitor? Today’s Wall Street Journal made “official” what logistics and supply chain professionals have known for some time-that Amazon is as much a logistics company as it is a retailer or a Cloud provider (Amazon Web Services) or an electronics designer (Amazon Kindle, Alexa, etc.).
The first of these free webinars will be held on November 9th at 2PM EST and the topic will be: Post US Election Federal Briefing. GLDPartners will present a forward assessment about the US federal budget, policy and regulatory and the likely impacts resulting from the Presidential Election.
As might be expected, the Hanjin bankruptcy debacle has impacted many ports and logistics firms quite significantly and it has caused havoc to a wide spectrum of shippers and their supply chains. Whether it is electronics products being stranded on a vessel or automotive products coming off an assembly line in Asia and bound for Europe or North America, shipper supply chain risk management is experiencing high-focus from very senior corporate management.