Chemical Logistics

Chemical Logistics:  Providers Fuel Innovations

In response to the challenges ahead, chemical logistics providers are moving forward with innovative approaches and substantive solutions.

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Chemical Logistics: Formulating Solutions

As chemical production increases in the United States, logistics providers drum up solutions to transport these critical shipments safely, efficiently, and accurately—leveraging specialized expertise and experience.

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Chemical Logistics: Critical Challenges Drive Creativity

Chemical shippers and their partners keep critical shipments moving safely and efficiently—refining their strategies and getting creative despite considerable challenges. Here’s how leading providers formulate solutions for the chemical industry.

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Chemical Logistics: Primed for Growth

Growing demand for U.S.-made chemicals sparks new opportunities, while aggravating capacity concerns.

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Chemical Logistics: Formula for Success

As the chemical industry continues to grow, shippers and their service partners work hard to keep product moving, trouble-free.

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Chemical Logistics: Keep it Moving, Keep it Safe

As U.S. chemical production grows, chemical shippers and their partners refine their strategies to ensure trouble-free transportation, secure sufficient capacity, and navigate the regulatory landscape.

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Chemical Logistics: Delivering Solutions for a Complex Industry

Chemical manufacturers—and the third-party logistics partners that serve them—tackle enormous challenges to keep the $770-billion industry moving.

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The Natural Gas Factor: New Market for Providers, New Competition for Capacity

The boom in natural gas and shale exploration in North America holds both good news and bad news for chemical companies. The natural gas being extracted from shale plays across the United States and in Canada has emerged as a low-cost alternative source for powering industrial facilities. As a result, some chemical manufacturers are reshoring […]

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Supply Chain Technology Taps into Efficiencies

Access to technology is an important driver for logistics and transportation outsourcing in the chemical market. The industry has lagged behind some other verticals in adopting logistics and supply chain technologies, partly because of the business’ unique nature. Many small, specialized transportation providers serving the industry haven’t had the resources to offer electronic transaction services, […]

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Outsourcing for Optimum Supply Chain Effectiveness

MORE TO THE STORY: An Industry in Flux The chemical industry’s complex logistics needs, safety and security concerns, and regulatory issues make outsourced logistics, transportation, distribution, and warehouse services an important part of its supply chain. Third-party logistics (3PL) providers working with the chemical industry offer a wide range of services in different levels of […]

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No Shortage of Challenges

Lack of capacity is one of the biggest challenges chemical shippers are currently grappling with. The culprits? The ongoing truck driver shortage, and changes to the Hours of Service rules, which take effect in July 2013 and will limit drivers’ time on the roads. While capacity issues are impacting all shippers, chemical companies feel the […]

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Complex Products, Complex Logistics Needs

By their very nature, chemicals make for complicated logistics. Transporting, storing, and distributing flammable, corrosive, highly reactive and carcinogenic materials is not an easy task. And when things go wrong, it’s not just a late or missing shipment at hand—there are economic, environmental, and emotional consequences. The deadly fertilizer plant explosion that occurred in April […]

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Chemical Logistics: Shippers/Providers Achieve Perfect Chemistry 

For the right blend of expertise, experience, and equipment, many shippers of chemical products turn to specialized carriers and 3PLs.

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Chemical Logistics: Smart Strategies For Uncertain Times

After years of uncertainty, chemical shippers and service providers are getting back on the right road.

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Chemical Logistics—June 2010

As the economy drives change, chemical players adapt.

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