The Logistics Academy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

According to the new “Global Freight Forwarding 2017 Report” compiled by the London-based think tank Transport Intelligence (Ti) , a continuation of excess capacity issues and lower average oil prices in 2016 led rates to fall in both air and sea freight, meaning most forwarders reported lower year-on-year revenues.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2018

While a degree of uncertainty over the future of free trade between Mexico and its Nafta neighbours to the north once again hung over discussions at this year’s Automotive Logistics Mexico conference, it was more than matched by confidence in the future of the automotive sector.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The offering was unveiled this week at Amazon Accelerate, a conference that drew about 2,000 online merchants to Seattle. Newsom has a reputation for being friendly to the tech industry, and is expected to veto AB 316. Robot drivers are exempt from hours-of-service regulations limiting humans to 11 hours of driving in a 24-hour period.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 23, 2019

Long distance rail connections are central to this trade and, at the Automotive Logistics Global Shanghai conference last week, speakers from China Railway International and Beijing Changjiu Logistics talked about the latest developments for vehicle and parts shipments on the China Railway Express (CR Express) between China and Europe.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The average young professional responding to the survey has worked in the supply chain industry for about four years and is employed by a third-party or fourth-party logistics provider, manufacturing, merchandising or retail trade, or an information technology provider.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 27, 2018

Robinson, MercuryGate, and friends from the industry). You can see him above proudly wearing the jersey while training indoors a couple of weeks ago. Command Alkon Introduces BuildIt to Digitally Revolutionize Construction Industry. A Supply Chain Operating Network for the Heavy Building Materials Industry. Robinson ).

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GlobalTranz

JULY 9, 2015

Since the collapse of the housing market and the economy in 2008, the freight transportation industry has managed to claw its way out of a damaging situation and maintain historically low trucking rates. However, the industry stands on the verge of a rate-hike cliff. told the conference. Driver Expenses.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The average young professional responding to the survey has worked in the supply chain industry for about four years and is employed by a third-party or fourth-party logistics provider, manufacturing, merchandising or retail trade, or an information technology provider.

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 19, 2018

NYK Auto Logistics India (NALI) has signed an agreement with transport and port operations provider, Adani Logistics, to provide finished vehicle services using freight trains. Based on market trends, the company aims to grow that to 25 in three years.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2017

A notable exception is MercuryGate (a Talking Logistics sponsor), which was founded 17 years ago and recently held its annual user conference in Las Vegas. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘The Future of Delivery,” which I love because it raises a lot of questions and possibilities (see my recent post on the topic).

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Logistics Manager

MAY 1, 2018

The container shipping industry in the past was comprised of a wide mix of carriers. However, with the abolishment of the conference system and as carriers began sharing space on vessels, carrier services and offerings became narrower in scope. How then are ocean carriers going to be able to differentiate themselves?

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

4] The ongoing conflict in Ukraine, too, has brought national industrial mobilisation to the fore in terms of Ukraine responses to Russian aggression, but also in the context of European, US and other logistics support to Ukraine. The successful delivery of the ULAC has been greatly beneficial for both the Army and BAE Systems Australia.

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Trinity Logistics

JUNE 3, 2021

Most cold chain food regulations come from the FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) of 2017. This regulation covers the cleanliness and function of equipment, protocols set in place for transportation, employee training on the proper handling of food in cold chains, and records of all FSMA compliance. In the U.S.,

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Logistics in War

MAY 31, 2018

During a logistics course in late 2017, I was asked to consider what the traits and behaviours of the strategic ‘future logistician’ might be. [1] This is a process that incorporates everything from acquisition to operational sustainment, and involves uniformed personnel, public servants and industry partners. By David Beaumont.

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Women in Trucking

MARCH 9, 2020

Conference shared a variety of best practices. percent increase in female drivers from 2017 to 2018, Shaver says. In fact, Walmart just announced that the company is raising the average salary to nearly $90,000 to attract more drivers – an unprecedented move in the industry. Presenters at the 2018 Accelerate! Learn More

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 25, 2019

Speaking at The Supply Chain Conference last week in Atlanta, George Grahovac (pictured), Honda of America’s new senior manager at its North America Operations Office, highlighted a spend of $1.2 Apart from the expense of installing the devices and training drivers, there has also been a loss of productivity.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 3, 2019

While that still “seems” high, it is actually the lowest point going back to the first quarter of 2017, when it checked in at 74%. What’s more, it helps to counter the 4% increase in the second quarter, which brought the annualized rate to 98%, which was 10% above the large carrier turnover rate at the end of 2017.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 6, 2017

I’ll be doing both for the first time in a couple of weeks at Seminarium’s Logistics & Operations Conference 2017 (October 18th in Santiago, Chile). Here’s a short video I recorded in Spanish highlighting the topic of my presentation: If you plan to be at the conference, I look forward to learning and networking with you.

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247 Customs Broker

DECEMBER 3, 2018

For even more human-robot collaboration, Volkswagen is teaming up with Dresden, Germany-based startup Wandelbots to more efficiently train industrial robots using an innovative jacket fitted with sensors and actuators. Industry Week, March 7, 2018. Bostonia, October 4, 2017. VW Trains Robots Using Jacket.”

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2019

In past decades, international investment has flowed into the automotive industry in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) primarily due to it being a low-cost production centre. passenger cars were produced in the Czech Republic in 2017. As of 2017, the UK ranked second in terms of exported cars with a share of 10.5%

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog from Freightos , is a SaaS-enabled marketplace for the logistics industry. As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. One visionary, Malcom McLean , is featured prominently in the industry’s development.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 15, 2018

In 2017, it saw a recovery in the automotive sector in Europe and a shortage of transport capacity in the market. At the press conference in Paris in January, Nadal said the company was opening up to new industrial sectors including aviation, manufacturing, energy, life sciences and healthcare, among others.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

Here is what Mr. Toornman said at the conference. “We The life sciences industry has some complex requirements that make transformations in that industry particularly difficult. It is not just about training people in their current role, but it’s also about developing people to the maximum of their potential.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 27, 2018

That was the key message Doug Braun, CEO of BluJay Solutions (a Talking Logistics sponsor), delivered in his keynote presentation at the SOAR 2018 Customer Conference last month. Delivering an enhanced customer experience is also becoming a differentiator in the software industry. Source: BluJay Solutions.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 11, 2018

Data will be used by the FAA to help expand drone flights and to also test how to balance national versus local government interests in the emerging industry. Full block train, single or multiple containers, LCL shipments and oversized cargo are available options. And with that, have a happy weekend!

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

15, 2017 Apparel Importers Trade and Transportation Conference in New York. “A We happened to find a spot right in the middle of the port (next to Yusen Terminals at the Port of Los Angeles) and it’s worked out very well for us.”. By the end of 2017, AIM had more than 4,000 chassis deployed in its fleet.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2018

According to Amico, the app, which the company developed itself, also helped show that highly skilled and trained vehicle inspectors were not needed to take the photographs; instead, with minimal training, almost anyone could snap the photos working alongside the inspector, thus freeing up valuable inspection resources.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 18, 2018

With a gross domestic product (GDP) of about US$136bn in 2017, the city is already acclaimed to have the seventh-largest GDP in Africa. Lagos-based Andela trains programmers and facilitates their placement with software companies around the world. So did Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichal in July 2017.

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Senate Agriculture Committee eager to hear the Trump administration’s plans to respond to impacts on an industry reeling from retaliatory tariffs. Drayage provider failed to pay 1,416 employees prevailing wages for work performed at the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach. Farm country economy ‘continues to deteriorate’.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 25, 2018

Only last week, a number of OEMs and advocacy groups with links to the automotive industry urged politicians to proceed with caution. Mexico, said López, had a world-ranking automotive industry based on a number of competitive advantages that now went way beyond lower labour costs, and was continuing to attract investment.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I will be wrong again,” I stated last year before making my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 , and I was right. But I was right with some of my other predictions, especially my prediction that we would see a rise in cyber attacks in 2017, with supply chain and logistics operations becoming new targets.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 1, 2018

on the corresponding period in 2017, partly because of the tariffs. While it is tempting to think the higher costs can be passed on to car buyers, the highly competitive nature of the industry limits the extent to which that option can be applied: raise the price and the usual result is reduced sales and lost market share. billion ($2.13

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Cooperation between India and Russia spans across the whole gamut of sectors and rests on the fundamental pillars of political and strategic cooperation, military and security cooperation, cooperation in the spheres of economy, energy, industry, science and technology, and cultural and humanitarian cooperation.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 24, 2018

of them driving around it, making it the second largest in China for vehicle numbers behind Beijing – and it was to Chengdu that delegates headed last week for this year’s Automotive Logistics China conference. CATRC’s director of policy research, Wu Songquan, said China had seen 14 consecutive months of growth since January 2017.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

The purpose of a port is for the direct intermodal exchange of people or freight,” he said, adding that ports should have the infrastructure to allow vehicles and trains to come alongside ships. It isn’t the auto industry. Other industries value the training that we provide for people to go to other places.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 2, 2019

As executive director of the ATA’s Automobile Carriers Conference (ACC), Farrell regularly coordinates lobbying efforts between the US House of Representatives and Senate, as well as related government oversight agencies, on issues pertaining to the transport of finished vehicles by truck. What future mandates may manufacturers put upon us?”.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Jim Shephard, president, Shephard’s Industrial Training Systems. ? data scientists), hardware and software across industry. Further, if one does a Google search on data science groups in private industry, numerous large industry groups formed just since 2007 appear. Jim Tompkins, CEO, Tompkins International. ?

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