What is the great shipping container shortage and could it ruin your Christmas?
If you were to rank humanity's most consequential inventions, chances are the shipping container wouldn't rate a mention.
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If you were to rank humanity's most consequential inventions, chances are the shipping container wouldn't rate a mention.
The Transportation Security Administration announced that it found more firearms in carry-on bags at airport security checkpoints through the first nine months of 2021 than it had in any full year over the past two decades.
As supply chain disruptions pummel industries across the globe ahead of the holiday season, a simulation tool powered by artificial intelligence (AI) has the power to help businesses predict disruptions to their supply chains and minimize their effects, according to MIT Technology Review.
CHICAGO (Audacy) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently suggested that his state’s ports be used as alternatives to jammed ports in California to help ease supply chain issues, but could that solution really work?
Los Angeles’s notorious traffic jams are a common sight, but the current logjam at its ports is something new. To alleviate the snarled supply chain issues at these ports, President Biden announced on Oct. 13 that the Los Angeles port will follow the Long Beach port to operate 24 hours per day. But there is no sign of the crisis abating. The number of ships waiting to unload hit a new record of 100 container ships on Oct. 19 with 45 more arriving the following 3 days.

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