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New Study Shows How Ukraine War Impacts Global Food Supply Chain, Urges Alternative Routes for Grains
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BALTIMORE, MD, January 13, 2025 – A groundbreaking new study in the INFORMS journal Transportation Science reveals the severe and far-reaching consequences of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on global food security. The research highlights an urgent need to address disruptions in the transportation of Ukrainian grains, which have caused dramatic price spikes and worsened food insecurity worldwide, particularly in vulnerable regions such as the Middle East and North Africa.

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America must act to secure its ‘legacy chips’ from China and other competitors
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Cutting-edge chips, especially those designed to power emerging AI applications, tend to receive the most attention in the media and generate the most excitement. However, so-called “legacy” chips are just as important — if not more — to our daily lives.  

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Do blood donation centers sell your blood?
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January is National Blood Donor Month and, not coincidentally, a time when donations tend to ebb. Every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs blood for serious injuries, childbirth, cancer treatments and more, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. 

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Bloomberg Markets: What'd You Miss?

Bloomberg Markets: What'd You Miss?

Bloomberg, September 27, 2021

Romaine Bostick, Taylor Riggs & Sonali Basak bring the news and analysis you may have missed after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's show tackles the supply chain woes Guests Today: Christopher Tang of the UCLA Anderson School, Craig Fuller of FreightWaves (Source: Bloomberg)

Lessons learned from hurricane recovery can improve supply chains

Lessons learned from hurricane recovery can improve supply chains

The Hill, September 27, 2021

We are in the middle of hurricane season. Every time one rolls through the Gulf Coast or Florida on its way up through the Atlantic Seaboard and the Northeast, as was recently seen with Ida, only after the winds and rain stop does the real clean-up work begin. The same observation can be made about our nation’s deeply troubled supply chain.   

The great container shortage

The great container shortage

ABC, September 27, 2021

Standardising shipping containers in the 1950’s made global trade possible but what happens to supply chains when there’s a shortage of these big metal boxes

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