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Chinese Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is the most important traditional festival originating in China, celebrated by more than 2 billion people worldwide. Other than the cultural and spiritual meaning the festival bestows to Chinese people, the 15-day long holiday (beginning with Chinese New Year’s Eve to the Chinese Lantern Festival) has a tremendous impact on the global supply chain, largely due to the uncertainty created by surging demand, decreasing manufacturing capacity, and the logistics disruption.

Team Syncelior, guided by Prof. Pascal Wolff, presented solutions addressing the pressing challenge of container congestion in Africa. The team’s ability to incorporate cutting-edge technology, such as AI, into their solutions impressed the judges and earned them this prestigious award.

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Natural disasters such as hurricanes and wildfires are increasing in both number and scale, with devastating consequences for affected communities. Unfortunately, there’s a real lack of alternative housing options for disaster survivors. There are solutions to this problem, and the offsite building industry can help bring them to fruition.

With thousands of houses destroyed by fire, the most populous county in the United States must confront the fraught logistics of rebuilding.

In an article for MIT News, AgeLab Research Associate Adam Felts writes about Dr. Joe Coughlin and Luke Yoquinto's latest book, Longevity Hubs, Regional Innovation for Global Aging.

Dr. Bryan Reimer, a research scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (MIT CTL), and the Founder and Co-leader of the Advanced Vehicle Technology (AVT) Consortium and the Human Factors Evaluator for Automotive Demand (AHEAD) Consortium in the MIT AgeLab, has been appointed to the Task Force on Human Factors in Aviation Safety Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) (“HF Task Force ARC”). The HF Task Force ARC will provide recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on the most significant human factors and the relative contribution of these factors to aviation safety risk.

On December 11 and 12, 2024, public and private sector stakeholders from the U.S. South and Midwest gathered with the MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab to discuss the challenges of responding to fuel supply chain disruptions during natural disasters. The Fuel Supply Chain Roundtable reflected on lessons learned from Hurricanes Helene and Milton and framed concepts that could be developed into a “Fuel Response Playbook” for future disasters. The event closed with the group considering one such possible disaster, a major earthquake in the New Madrid seismic zone in the Midwest, which the MIT lab is currently studying.

The MIT Global Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (MIT SCALE) Network has once again been ranked as the world’s top master’s program for supply chain and logistics management by Eduniversal’s 2024/2025 Best Masters Rankings. This recognition marks the eighth consecutive #1 ranking since 2016, reaffirming MIT’s unparalleled leadership in supply chain education, research, and practice.

A report, Approaching Zero Emission Trucking: Challenges and Opportunities. Released earlier this month from the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL) based on a roundtable earlier this year by the MIT FreightLab and the MIT Sustainable Supply Chain Lab, discusses identifying, measuring, and managing Scope 3 emissions; emission-reduction strategies, including zero-emission (ZE) trucking solutions. Three main takeaways are focused on in this article by Material Handling & Logistics: