{"id":9625,"date":"2021-11-09T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/11\/09\/amid-a-global-supply-chain-crisis-how-new-orleans-port-has-avoided-major-shipping-delays\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:44:26","slug":"amid-a-global-supply-chain-crisis-how-new-orleans-port-has-avoided-major-shipping-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/amid-a-global-supply-chain-crisis-how-new-orleans-port-has-avoided-major-shipping-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid a global supply chain crisis, how New Orleans port has avoided major shipping delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans native and Furman University sociologist Kenneth Kolb has coauthored a piece for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/news\/article_9a85bb02-3be4-11ec-829c-5b40c420e61e.html\">The Times-Picayune<\/a> about supply chain woes at ports throughout the United States. A paywall-free version of the article is available <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cooltechproducts.piyasaa.com\/amid-a-global-supply-chain-crisis-how-new-orleans-port\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the story, which made front page news of The Times-Picayune print edition, Kolb describes how his hometown Port of New Orleans has averted the logjams seen in other harbors across the United States. He attributes the gluts of languishing container ships to &#8220;the sheer success\u2014and vulnerability\u2014of the globalized economy, which itself is partly traceable to two breakthroughs from the 1960s and 1970s &#8211; containerization and just-in-time manufacturing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Furman ID holders may access the content on the Factiva database at Furman University Libraries in the coming days.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-asset inline-image layout-horizontal subscriber-hide tnt-inline-asset tnt-inline-relcontent tnt-inline-image tnt-inline-relation-child tnt-inline-presentation-default tnt-inline-alignment-default tnt-inline-width-default\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans native and Furman University sociologist Kenneth Kolb has coauthored a piece for The Times-Picayune about supply chain woes at ports throughout the United States. A paywall-free version of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,52,22],"tags":[1158,1159,1160,1161,1162],"class_list":["post-9625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-library","category-sociology","tag-containerization","tag-just-in-time-manufacturing","tag-port-of-new-orleans","tag-shipping","tag-supply-chain"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}