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MSC and GBRf sign new five-year rail deal

Logistics Business Magazine

GBRf has been a provider of rail services to MSC since 2002. MSC commented: “MSC is once again delighted to confirm a new five-year deal with GBRf, who have been supporting MSC with our intermodal rail services since 2002. John Smith, Managing Director at GB Railfreight , said: “We are thrilled to have signed this contract with MSC.

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Reflections on East Timor by a logistics unit commander – twenty years on

Logistics in War

3] While these deployments were small in comparison to East Timor, most of the problems that arose with INTERFET had surfaced in some way during previous ADF deployments to Somalia (1993) and Bougainville (1997-2002) and there was ample opportunity for an appropriate lessons learned process to be applied.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 27 – March 3, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Those same words were also said when the ports were shut down for 10 days in 2002 , and again in December 2012 when 600 clerks went on strike , shutting down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for 8 days. Of course, there are a lot of skeptics out there who don’t believe we’ll see driverless trucks anytime soon on our roads — if ever. “If

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Nearshoring & Reshoring Will Continue to Increase Thanks to these Main Benefits

GlobalTranz

Of course, there are other factors affecting the American push towards reshoring and nearshoring. These recall counts point to sizeable growth over the past decade in the recall notices of Chinese-made consumer goods from 58 in 2002 to 153 in 2014. The political climates of foreign countries are becoming unstable.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 17 – 23)

Logistics Viewpoints

Thirty-six years ago today marks either one of the greatest marketing blunders or success stories of all-time, depending on how you look at it, of course. While New Coke would linger for quite some time, it was discontinued in 2002, with a limited re-release in 2019. Coca-Cola Classic remains the number one soft drink in the US.

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Still Think Dangerous Goods is Just Paperwork and Labels?

Talking Logistics

The prosecution was brought by [the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority] under the air navigation (dangerous goods) regulations 2002. It outlines how dangerous goods must be handled when transported by air. So, how could a leading shipper like Amazon fail to comply with dangerous goods regulations?

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How to Improve Manufacturing Floor Data Collection

GlobalTranz

Although it was published in 2002, the case study highlighted the data collection struggles of a particular manufacturing company that probably rings true for many SMEs and large corporations alike. A case study, published by Modern Machine Shop several years ago, caught our eye recently. nd white papers, for use by Armagard's marketing team.