George Hoffman

Oct 24, 2024 | tbrnewsmedia.com | George Hoffman

Guest editorial: Vote ‘yes’ for clean water! Port Jefferson Harbor. Photo by Beth Heller Mason This Election Day, voters face an important ballot question: Proposition 2, the Clean Water referendum. If passed, this measure will fund crucial efforts to protect our drinking water and our bays and harbors from harmful nitrogen pollution. Much of this excess nitrogen comes from outdated cesspool systems in homes throughout Suffolk County.

Oct 14, 2024 | thescxchange.com | Dan Gilmore |Raj Senguttuvan |George Hoffman |Arthur Mesher

Interest in warehouse robotics remains high, driven by labor pressures and a general desire to further automate distribution processes. Likewise, the number of robot makers also continues to grow. By one count, more than 50 providers exhibited at the big MODEX show in Atlanta in March 2024. In distribution environments, there is especially strong interest in autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for collaborative order picking.

Sep 19, 2024 | thescxchange.com | Victoria Fraza Kickham |George Hoffman

A coalition of freight transport and cargo handling organizations is calling on countries to honor their existing resolutions to report the results of national container inspection programs, and for the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to publish those results.

Sep 18, 2024 | thescxchange.com | George Hoffman

As retailers seek to cut the climbing costs of handling product returns, many are discovering that U.S. consumers shrink their spending when confronted with tighter returns policies, according to a report from Blue Yonder. That finding comes from Scottsdale, Arizona-based Blue Yonder’s “2024 Consumer Retail Returns Survey,” a third-party study which collected responses from 1,000+ U.S. consumers in July.