U.S. logistics Infrastructure – Impending crisis or smooth sailing?

May 21, 2007 by Splatty  
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Here’s a quick link to an article by Dan Gilmore of Supply Chain Digest regarding his thoughts on the state of the transportation infrastructure in the U.S.

All of us should pay a bit more attention to this issue, in my opinion. In a highly competitive, increasingly just in time, supply chain driven world, barriers to the flow of goods across over the road and rails can be just as important as those we focus on through our plants and distribution centers.

Is U.S. logistics infrastructure facing a looming crisis or not? Does it really impact national competitiveness, or is it just a bit of a headache. Will technology and ingenuity and maybe even panic come to the rescue, or are the challenges to big? What, if anything, can really be done?

Read the whole article.

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