Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

So, while I count the days and hours and minutes until she gets back, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) Activates For Latest Major Hurricane Of 2018. It’s during these times that our industry and its people truly shine the brightest.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

It’s the reason why more than 300 people attended this year’s Shipper Symposium: to learn about the trends shaping the industry and to discuss how to rewrite the rules for success moving forward. There were a lot of great sessions and speakers during the conference, but I don’t have the time or space to summarize them all today.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 15, 2023

Steve Lewis, the president of GXO Direct, the shared services division of GXO Logistics, spoke at Blue Yonder’s ICON user conference. Afterwards, Mr. Lewis spoke in more detail to industry analysts. Since its introduction in 2018, GXO Direct has grown exponentially, adding millions of square feet each year. and Canada.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 30, 2018

I’ll just repeat what I said back in January: The bottom line is that product returns is yet another example of how “the way we’ve always done it” is just not going to cut it any more. Take a look at what’s happening in the ocean freight industry. This is self-contradictory,” said Jansen at the [Global Liner Shipping Conference].

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Automotive Logistics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The automotive industry is going through some seismic changes as digital technology changes not only the vehicles we drive but also the way they are supplied and built. Verification Please enter any two digits * Example: 12 This box is for spam protection - please leave it blank : [mpu_ad].

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Women in Trucking

MAY 25, 2020

Conference & Expo. Men as Allies in the Real World Fortunately, more and more men in the transportation industry are recognizing the value of greater gender representation and showing interest in increasing diversity in the workplace. who addressed the topic in her presentation at the 2019 Accelerate! Learn More

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Penske Move Ahead

MARCH 12, 2018

Spring is just around the corner, and 2018 is already shaping up to be a memorable year in trucking. Attending the Stifel Conference in February, I had the opportunity to hear several seasoned industry executives express that they had never seen a January like this past January in their entire careers.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

As you read this, I will be flying home from project44’s Transform conference where I moderated a panel discussion on real-time freight visibility and I recorded several video interviews with project44 customers and partners. Ok, so did everybody else who attended the conference, but it was cool nonetheless. What’s in the Amazon box?

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 11, 2018

Global shipping giant Maersk Group has begun piloting an industry-wide paperless platform in a joint venture project with IBM aimed at speeding up trade transactions. Imports into the US market grew in 2018 by 3-5%, driven by higher wages, lower unemployment and slightly higher GDP growth this year, according to the Maersk report.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 8, 2024

Silke: “Going to Chile in 2018 as an MD. There were some very standard questions directed to me, for example ‘what do you know about repairing forklift trucks?’ This was my message at last year’s conference: everybody has an important role to play, some at the front and others at the back office.

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Airfreight Logistics

JULY 10, 2018

Emirates Airlines Freight Division, Emirates SkyCargo recently announced that they have received the prestigious Carrier Award for Reliability and Excellence (CARE) 2018 from DHL Global Forwarding. The award was made in recognition of their outstanding service for the transportation of temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Last November, executives from all segments of the Heavy Building Materials (HBM) ecosystem got together at the inaugural Leadership Roundtable meeting organized by Command Alkon (a Talking Logistics sponsor) to discuss a couple of simple questions: Are there opportunities to elevate the performance of the HBM industry?

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Now, That's Logistics

JULY 13, 2018

As attendees at this year’s SEMICON West conference saw this week, advanced technology is playing a major role in these new “connected” logistics, warehousing, and transportation networks. IoT and blockchain, for example, can facilitate the recording of every transaction across multiple copies of the distributed ledger.

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Automotive Logistics

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Eduardo Solis, executive president of the Asociación Mexicana de la Industria Automotriz (AMIA), told delegates at the Automotive Logistics Mexico conference last week that the industry there had been “growing significantly” and now represented 20.2% of GDP, second only to the food industry at 20.7%. New free trade requirements.

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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. When Defence made mobilisation an agenda.

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Technology October 16, 2018. In a session about identifying the “megashifts” affecting the industry, he cited trends including: personalization, virtualization, disintermediation, cognification, digitization, robotization, datafication, augmentation, and automation. By Ben Ames. ” About the Author. .

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Logistics experts shared their research findings during the Council for Supply Chain Management’s (CSCMP) annual EDGE Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Penske is once again a major conference sponsor. So far, e-commerce growth has continued in 2018. percent in the second quarter of 2018. It ticked up from 9.4

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World Food Programme Logistics

JANUARY 24, 2019

A few months earlier, in September 2018, the same government staff who directed drones over Beira this week stood in a field in Madagascar with a remote control in their hands, practising their piloting skills. UAS Coordination Training Madagascar, August 2018. UAS Coordination Training Madagascar, August 2018.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 14, 2018

While OEMs and logistics providers hope this signals a major recovery in the market, 2018 looks like it could be a year of further uncertainty for the automotive industry in Russia. . Most industry observers appear to agree. . IHS Markit expects slightly higher growth rates for 2018, compared to last year,” she confirms.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

I learned that fact (and many more important things) at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference in New Orleans this week. Elemica Delivers Predictive Visibility to Global Industrial Supply Chains. Cement is one of the raw materials that goes into making concrete, which is the finished product. Bloomberg).

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Freightos

JANUARY 8, 2019

As we enter a new year, it’s a great time to look back at how far we’ve come as an industry, set our next goalposts, and map out where we should be as an industry by 2020. It should come as no surprise that we are running out the clock until Amazon competes with more aspects of the logistics industry. Amazon is coming.

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IoT World Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

For the sake of comparison, Rawlings points to the international Sigfox conference he attended last year, “There were about 125 booths there with product manufacturers displaying their devices,” Rawlings said. One example might be tracking the location of a block of metal at a landing-gear manufacturer. Book your ticket now. ].

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

According to the 2020 Third-Party Logistics Study, data analytics is not only becoming more viable in the logistics industry, but it’s also becoming a necessity and make a difference. This is a fairly standard industry practice for retail stores to ensure timely deliveries. Langley sites dynamic pricing in freight for an example.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 30, 2018

Digital technology has a lot of answers for an industry that is making strides in addressing the needs of modern manufacturing and the changing face of mobility, but there are still gaps to fill in terms of supply chain visibility, faster asset deployment and empty backhauls. Dana McBrien, associate chief advisor at Honda North America. “It

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247 Customs Broker

AUGUST 19, 2018

With all that’s occurred in 2018, I’ve had some very interesting conversations, especially with shippers. In fact, I told him that I have talked to hundreds of shippers, and the number of organizations that accurately forecast their freight costs for 2018 could be counted on one hand—with some fingers left over.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 20, 2020

Addressing port and terminal operators during an online forum last week, Robert Rizika, Naval Dome’s Boston-based Head of North American Operations, explained that in 2017 there were 50 significant OT hacks reported, increasing to 120 in 2018 and more than 310 last year. They can penetrate these systems directly.”.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

These are, historically, the biggest disruptors that occur in our industry: Chinese New Year (aka Spring Festival). For example, this year, Chinese New Year occurred later in the season than usual, so we started planning with customers in mid-January, not mid-December, as we do in some years. This is a week-long celebration in China.

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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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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Bilateral forums, conferences, meetings and seminars happen more often than one can count, and usually result in numerous announcements – ranging from memoranda of understanding (MoU) to billions of financial commitments. FOCAC 2018 indicated the recalibration of China’s strategy in Africa. Finally, Beijing.

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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. The automotive sector is the largest industry in the Czech Republic, generating more than 9% of GDP, 26% of manufacturing output and 24% of Czech exports.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Logistics experts shared their research findings during the Council for Supply Chain Management Professional’s (CSCMP) EDGE Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. The logistics industry reached a crossroads in 2018 after toughing out constrained capacity and rising prices in 2017, according to the State of Logistics Report.

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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Russia’s Industry and Trade Ministry wants OEMs to make huge investments in new production capacity in Russia over the coming decade, in order to continue qualifying for state aid. Using localised engines or transmissions will score 40 points, for example, while electronic systems or aluminium of Russian origin will score 20 points. .

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 7, 2017

These Giant Drones Could Seriously Disrupt the Shipping Industry (NBC News). It didn’t take long for the recently rebranded BluJay Solutions to make its first acquisition: Blackbay , “a leading provider of mobility-enabled solutions for the transport and logistics industry.” wants to introduce the system by 2018.

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The Logistics Academy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

For example, airfreight forwarding growth in China is thought to have been robust this past year, while sea freight growth was much weaker. Nonetheless, it’s clear that the scope of these solutions, in terms of geographic coverage for example, needs to broaden in order for them to deliver value. DB Schenker and uShip, for example.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Coinciding with the upswing in the world economy two years ago, global seaborne trade is doing well, note analysts for the Geneva-based United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). They also observe that containerized shipping expanded by 4% in 2018—the fastest growth in five years. Rate uplift.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 17, 2018

Cass Truckload Linehaul Index (July 2018). This change in go-to-market approach could be a way to gain the support of other industry players, including Hapag-Lloyd and CMA CGM, who haven’t jumped on the Maersk-IBM bandwagon yet. This is self-contradictory,” said Jansen at the [Global Liner Shipping Conference]. But as the U.S.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Logistics experts shared their research findings during the Council for Supply Chain Management Professional's (CSCMP) EDGE Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. In 2018, demand softened, but not to the point where a steep decline was visible. Presenters included Balika Sonthalia, a vice president at A.T.

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