The maritime industry has been deeply affected as a result of the upheaval caused by the coronavirus and its impacts to Chinese manufacturing and logistics services.

Whether it is automating your workforce or implementing new logistics systems, cost is always an issue, and so is the temptation to go with standardized computer equipment and solutions. In the transportation sector that may or may not make sense. Working with vendors that specialize in customized hardware, software, and solutions may be a better idea.

“The vast majority of United States hospitals and health care facilities are unprepared to handle and contain cases of COVID-19 (Coronavirus),” according to a survey of registered nurses conducted by National Nurses United (NNU) and released on March 5th.

While there’s been a string of major trade show cancellations, Medica 2020 could be “the show of all shows.”

SeaIntelligence’s Jensen says, despite Coronavirus, China’s recovery is inevitable but exporters to China will suffer.

Waterways Council, Inc. (WCI), which represents farmers, shippers and tug and barge operators on the Mississippi and other rivers, sharply criticized President Trump’s 2021 budget proposals for the U.S. inland waterways and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers calling them “Astonishingly Inadequate” and noting:

Innovation is critical to the success of retailers at a time when consumers may well be buying less, according to the top executive of Levi Strauss & Co., addressing the Retail Industry Leaders Association’s supply chain forum Tuesday [Feb. 25] in Grapevine, Texas.

Delivering productivity gains averaging 70 percent, robots are increasingly being deployed to pick items for shipment from warehouses, according to a DHL Supply Chain design team executive exhibiting at this week’s Retail Industry Leaders Association conference.

Logistics decision-makers must be open to radical new solutions, according to a futurist opening the Retail Industry Leaders Association’s big annual supply chain gathering today [Monday, Feb. 24] in Grapevine, Texas.

Canada will support a ban on the use of heavy fuel oil by ships plying Arctic waters at the upcoming meeting of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London, Transport Canada officials announced during a teleconference call Wednesday, according to people who participated in the call.