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UPS | April 17, 2020

UPS has added more than 200 company-owned and chartered cargo flights in April to support the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Project Airbridge "and other healthcare-related missions," according a press release Friday. A majority of the new flights will ferry products from Asia to the U.S. and Europe, UPS said. Cargo will include personal protective equipment (PPE), ventilators, emergency room monitoring equipment, test kits and other supplies to aid global coronavirus...

Supply Chain Dive | January 21, 2020

The 2005 Texas City BP oil refinery explosion, the 2009 Colgan Air Crash, the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and the nuclear accidents at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island have something in common, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) — workplace fatigue was a contributing factor. Mental and physical fatigue costs the U.S. economy over $136 billion in health-related lost production time, OSHA said. In manufacturing specifically, over 57% of workers...

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PS Logistics | March 02, 2021

A Birmingham 100 firm has another acquisition under its belt. Flatbed transportation organization PS Holdco LLC, otherwise called PS Logistics, has purchased all substantial transportation resources of Shoals, Indiana-based Jason Jones Trucking Inc. (JJT). JJT will keep on working under the Jason Jones Trucking brand name. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “JJT brings great freight synergies to both our companies as well as our cus...

Cointelegraph | April 06, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic brings major economies to their heel under lockdown, there is mounting concern that the global trade and supply chain system could buckle within weeks. Collapsed supply and demand, transport frictions, labor shortages and, in some cases, early signs of protectionism, are making it increasingly tough for suppliers to keep goods and services flowing across global value chains. While the depth of the crisis may be unprecedented, the authors of an April 6 report for the Worl...