Avocado Roast: Ethical Sourcing in Transportation

“My grave is already dug.” It’s an expression among Mexican youth, according to Foreign Correspondent. And it embodies a macabre acceptance bordering on indifference to the violence of the Mexican Cartel.  In the transportation industry, it is very fashionable to cover issues of sustainability, clean energy sourcing, EV trucks, etc.

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Safe Parking Legislation Hammers Down

Legislation to fund the expansion of safe parking is moving forward to the tune of 755 million dollars. Safe Parking. It’s an issue that routinely makes the American Trucking Association’s list of drivers’ top ten concerns. In part, that concern stems from the practical but pressing issue of not having

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The Real Storage Wars

Blue Eagle is continuing its coverage of the contributing factors of the pressing supply chain issues. This week, we’ll take a fun, if quixotic look at the warehouse element that impacts the flow of goods. Six thousand years ago… that’s when the first enterprising Chinese man named Xiang Lau started

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Five Books Every Shipping and Logistics Expert Needs to Read

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate by Rose George From pirates to high seas danger, this book takes its readers into the darkest corners of one of the largest unseen industries in

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Chipped Logistics Out of China

The automotive industry has been feeling pressure for the duration of the pandemic– with used car prices rising a staggering forty percent across the United States, USA Today reports. The biggest issues is that Chinese chip production has been slow to rebound, which is compounded by the continued COVID-19 lockdown

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Any Port in a Storm– Except Shanghai

They say that culture is downstream of politics… but then so are supply chains. Right now the Chinese people are cruising down the stream on both–as culture, politics, and the supply chain are clashing; as a result, the wake for the world’s shipping industry is looking turbulent. More specifically, politically

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