SALT LAKE CITY – The Utah Inland Port Authority convened local and national partners Monday to discuss nationwide supply chain challenges and Utah’s role in providing solutions. Panelists discussed the complicated business of logistics. While many possible fixes have been proposed for the broken supply chain, there likely isn’t a silver bullet. “No one party can solve everything,” said Andrew …
Inland Port Authority brainstorms solutions to supply chain problems
SALT LAKE CITY — As the country’s supply chain continues to have problems, members of the Utah Inland Port Authority brainstormed possible solutions. They say the COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed how international shipping companies do business, and American companies need to make serious adjustments if things are to improve…
How Utah can be the model for fixing the nation’s supply chain
SALT LAKE CITY – Leaders from major shipyards and rail yards from around the country visited Utah Monday to find solutions for the nation’s broken supply chain. They looked to Utah’s Inland Port. Solutions were already in motion as about 100 shipping containers arrived by train in Utah Friday. That’s just the beginning…
Opinion: Can Utah help solve the supply chain crisis?
The controversial but needed Utah Inland Port can enhance manufacturing in Utah and other Western states, promising to handle exports and imports more efficiently The nation faces a serious supply chain problem just as the holiday shopping season starts. Can Utah provide some help to solve this and other economic problems?
Inland Port still working to improve supply chain issues
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Inland Port Authority said it was making progress in the ongoing supply chain crisis Tuesday, weeks after it announced partnerships with Union Pacific and others to expedite the shipping of containers to Utah. Hundreds of miles from the backlog of ships on the west coast, containers are piled high at RSD Container Yard Services, one of …
FMC Commissioner Bentzel’s grade on US logistics system: D-plus
The current supply chain crisis will be the subject of a series of hearings led by Federal Maritime Commissioner Carl Bentzel beginning on Tuesday when the FMC will begin laying the framework. The meetings will be with industry and public partners on maritime data infrastructure. Meetings with specific port participants begin next week. In an exclusive interview, Bentzel tells American …
Pent-up worldwide demand squeezing global supply chain
SALT LAKE CITY — Store shelves are emptying, ports are backed up, the holiday shopping season is approaching. The global supply-chain mess is likely to get messier before it gets better, says a Utah import/export specialist, Miles Hansen, president and CEO of World Trade Center Utah. He added the global supply-chain crisis highlights the importance of Utah’s inland port and …
Are there solutions for the supply chain headaches?
SALT LAKE CITY — Businesses across the country, including here in Utah, are looking for ways to bypass the ongoing global supply chain problems. Is there an easy solution? The simple answer is there is not an easy solution to this complicated series of complex problems. Clear as mud, right? Groups like the World Trade Center Utah, the Salt Lake Chamber, and Utah Inland …
Supply chain ‘perfect storm’ hits ‘literally everything we consume’
The global supply chain is in the midst of “a perfect storm,” according to one local expert, with delays in the movement of goods causing headaches for both importers and exporters and, ultimately, consumers. “We continue to have unprecedented levels of goods moving, particularly in the trans-Pacific routes but also the rest of the world, and the system continues to …