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Gothenburg Named Top Swedish Logistics Location

Logistics Business Magazine

It is an honourable award that we place great value on, and it is of course nice to be recognized together with the region’s other actors in the field of logistics. The high-profile list of the best logistics locations in Sweden has been published since 2001. 70,000 square meters were added in the region.

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Veterans in Trucking: Career Guide for Finding Success After Service

WorkWave

The New York Times published an article acknowledging that “veterans are working, but not in jobs that match their advanced training.” . Of course, those who may not possess all of these skills can easily learn them over time. This can be done by educating them on the different career paths that are complementary to their skillsets.

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What crosses the China-North Korea border?

247 Customs Broker

Mr Kim arrived in Beijing this week on a similar train to the one used by his father, Kim Jong-il. A Russian emissary who travelled on that train in 2001 immortalised it in a memoir , describing live lobsters being airlifted to it every day, silver chopsticks, and a parade of beautiful female companions. Image copyright.

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How will the tariff war with China affect U.S. container ports?

247 Customs Broker

Taking this logic train to the next stop, the current value of the new tariffs amount to around $35 billion, or two-tenths of a percentage point of real GDP. And this is, of course, the goal of punitive tariffs—to apply economic pressure to Chinese exporters who will then turn this economic pressure into political pressure.

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How Manufacturing in the US Continues to Grow Despite Fears Over Higher Costs, Lower Percentage of GDP & Election-Year Woes

GlobalTranz

The first recovery was from 2001 to 2007, but it was halted with the Great Recession of 2008. Manufacturers should take advantage of this influx of recent grads by offering contractual debt-forgiveness programs and reaching out to these programs to provide training and education in exchange for course work. Since 1991, the U.S.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling and Logistics

Jim Shephard, president, Shephard’s Industrial Training Systems. ? As the phenomenon of Big Data has taken hold in the private sector, many firms which as recently as 10 years ago devoted minimal resources to large scale database mining and analytics have reversed course. Jim Tompkins, CEO, Tompkins International. ? How did they do it?