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A rail strike was averted on the same week Tesla delivered its first semitruck to PepsiCo. While these two events may seem unrelated, they're not. Let's start with the rail strike. For those who don't follow the news closely, the US was on the verge of a rail strike. The main point of contention was whether rail workers will be paid sick leave. Ultimately, Congress intervened and forced the rail union to agree to a

`safemodels` implements a cryptographically-secure proof-of-concept for verifying the provenance of ML models.

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After a Years-long Supply-Chain Crisis, Relief is Finally Here—Especially in Key Sectors like Semiconductors and Motor Vehicles

China must reconfigure its industries and supply chains to meet the challenges posed by rising geopolitical tensions and rapid population aging.

Digitising shipping processes throws up a range of regulatory challenges

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MIT's David Correll finds trucker "detention time" — the unpaid time drivers spend at warehouses waiting to be loaded and unloaded, often lasting hours — has contributed to supply chain bottlenecks in recent months. Correll is a research scientist at at the MIT FreightLab within the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics.

MIT Political Science student Hao Zhang examines how the rise of global value chains reshape trade coalitions across and within national borders, with regional focuses on the U.S. and China.

As businesses scramble for supply chain contingencies, they risk adding more complexity to a barely functioning system.

The immediate path to stopping Vladimir Putin's brazen and brutal war in Ukraine may not be entirely clear, just yet. But one thing is certain: global supply chain dependencies on Russ

The Russo-Ukrainian conflict and the COVID-19 pandemic have shown how vulnerable global supply chains can be. International events can disrupt manufacturing, delay shipping, induce panic buying and send energy costs soaring.

Modern production is global, and globalization persists through pandemics, war, xenophobia, and trade wars. It persists because global supply chains enhance product quality while reducing costs. Globalization continues because the technology of communication, information, and even transportation keeps advancing while becoming relatively less expensive.

How logistics managers can tighten the supply chain

They're shifting to domestic sourcing and production, like some big manufacturers, but with at least one advantage the giants don't have.

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