How Home Depot is Meeting Green Goals ESG has gained a lot of attention over recent years and Home Depot is showing other companies how they made use of purchase orders to help meet their green goals by working with manufacturers to move to battery-operated machines. Apple’s Failure to Build Key Part of New iPhones…
Amazon Launches Supply Chain Solution In its continued race to dominate e-commerce, Amazon announced a new automated supply chain service for sellers aptly named, Supply Chain by Amazon. The solution offers an end-to-end automated solution to help sellers bring product from manufacturing directly to their customers. (Is it me or did this sound like an…
The World’s Largest Green Hydrogen Plant Planned There’s a new race going on, the AI race. South Korea’s SK’s renewable energy division is planning to build a US$15 billion green hydrogen plant in Canada’s Newfoundland and Labrador. The plant will use wind energy to produce clean energy. Upon completion, the plant would be the world’s…
Chip Makers Face New Restrictions There’s a new race going on, the AI race. With restrictions imposed on chip makers such as Nvidia and AMD from selling to China and Russia, the Biden-administration has imposed new restrictions laid out for “certain” parts of the Middle-East. Qualcomm Wants More Automaker AI Share As most of the…
Chipmaker, Arm files for IPO Arm, the British chipmaker owned by Japan’s Softbank, saw Nvidia hit $13.5 billion in revenue in the most recent quarterly earnings report and though, “Hey, I want some of that too!”. As the British chipmaker pivots to an AI-led strategy, they have filed for an IPO in New York instead…
Container Rates from China Start Rising Again As shipping rates started coming down and the chaos for supply chains started improving, it looks like container rates from China to the U.S. are starting to creep up again. Sugar Distributor Expands Products Vancouver-based sugar distributor, Rogers Sugar, is looking to expand its Montreal production facility to…
UPS Drivers Earn How Much??? In this week’s “make you say WOW” moment, UPS’ CEO shared that their drivers will average $170K in salary and benefits with the new deal structure. Where does one apply to become a UPS driver? Asking for a friend… Panama Canal Backed Up As if a global pandemic over the…
UPS Avoids Strike UPS workers avoided a strike by agreeing to a five year deal that includes more pay. Shippers are feeling somewhat relieved to avoid another kick in the gut to supply chains. Europe Wants the Chips Now that AI is dominating everything we hear about these days, everyone is in a race to…
BC Port workers on and off strike The BC port workers strike which had dragged on for over a week, was initially halted, then it was on again, but now it seems it’s supposed to be off again…the Labour Minister of Canada had to step in and declare their on again strike illegal due to…
Renewable Energy Will Generate a Third of World’s Electricity by 2030 As the OG companies of O&G (oil & gas) clamber to get into renewable energy, a new report by non-profit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) finds that one third of the world’s electricity will be powered by wind and solar by 2030 (that’s very soon…