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IMO calls for seafarers to be designated as “key workers” during COVID-19

Shipping and Freight Resource

IMO has echoed shipping industry calls for governments to keep shipping and supply chains open and grant special travel exemptions to seafarers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Let’s take a quick survey shall we.?? In a Circular Letter No.4204/Add.6 In a Circular Letter No.4204/Add.6

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Private Fleets or Outsourced Logistics? Which is Better?

Trinity Logistics

It can be challenging for you to decide the best way to transport your products. On the surface, private fleets appear to be the better option, but you must recognize and understand all that goes into running your own transportation. Fewer decisions are bigger than deciding whether to operate a private fleet or outsource.

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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

This estimate is according to responses provided by 83 percent of the manufacturing executives who participated in a survey conducted as part of an industry study by the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte Consulting LLP. Nationally, the health care and technology industries have been especially hard hit by the staffing deficits.

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Same concerns remain, when it comes to the truck driver shortage

247 Customs Broker

If someone asked you point blank: “what is the biggest issue in freight transportation today?” It is a topic of daily discussion at every industry trade show and conference, while also getting a ton of attention in the form of commentary or data being issued fairly frequently. Why wouldn’t it be either? of freight tonnage moves on U.S.

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Aptiv takes a global approach to mobility

Automotive Logistics

Underpinning this approach will be a global transport management system (TMS), which Richards is responsible for implementing, as well as developing an enterprise visibility tool with predictive analytics for freight movements around the world. In addition, it has 14 technical centres. Implementing a worldwide TMS.

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C-TPAT Survey - Be careful what you ask for.

Blog on Log

C-TPAT survey gives members chance to sound off Are companies who participate in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism really achieving tangible efficiencies by partnering with the U.S. CBP turned to the University of Virginia to help design and conduct the survey. government to secure their international supply chains?

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

247 Customs Broker

“Although a number of surveys show consumers say they want sustainable products, only a small percentage of them are actually willing to pay more to buy sustainable products,” Sheffi notes. Transportation Manager, N/A. Carsten Baumann. Posted on: Aug, 19 2016.