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The Australian Defence Force and industry support to operations ? is it time for a new ?national support agenda??

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This is the final post from the LIW archives on strategic logistics and logistics challenges prior to the Australia & New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference. In 2016, the Australian Government released its 2016 Defence White Paper and the supplemental Defence Industry Policy Statement.

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Consumer confidence continues to be strong in retail sector

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As the 2018 Retail Supply Chain Conference concludes this week in Phoenix, leading industry indicators point to continued consumer confidence. The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index unexpectedly surged 6.5 Both were the best since 2001, consistent with the tight labor market with unemployment at 4.1%

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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations

Logistics in War

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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“Intermodal Gives Shippers, 3PLs Relief from Tight Trucking Market” Jeff Heller, Norfolk Southern – Supply Chain 24/7

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The Tight Trucking Capacity and the Intermodal Industry. Jeff Heller , vice president of intermodal and automotive at Norfolk Southern (pictured above), recently spoke with SMC³ about the impact the tight trucking capacity market is having on the intermodal industry. Compliance to U.S.

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CBP working to curb illicit e-commerce traffic | Full Stories – Caption as the Content | Full

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The rapidly increasing wave of e-commerce shipments entering the United States from abroad over the past two years has Customs and Border Protection ready to take collective action with the industry to enhance security over this trade. “Stay tuned,” CBP Acting Deputy Commissioner Robert E.

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CBP working to curb illicit e-commerce traffic

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The rapidly increasing wave of e-commerce shipments entering the United States from abroad over the past two years has Customs and Border Protection ready to take collective action with the industry to enhance security over this trade. “Stay tuned,” CBP Acting Deputy Commissioner Robert E.

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Trucking Ambassadors of Safety

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Owens says that this type of collaboration and proactive communication is an unmatched industry service – and one he calls “priceless.”. Owens first became a safety officer in 2001, when his late father Randy Owens established the independent Landstar agency. At Owens Leasing Inc.,