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Moving toward freight ton efficiency together

Fleet Owner

Last week I presented our Run on Less findings to the government industry meeting of the 21st Century Truck Partnership. I first worked with this group back in 2007, when I represented Navistar and helped construct some of the early documentation th

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JING DONG

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

At present, JD Logistics is the only enterprise in the world that owns six logistics networks for small, medium, large, cold chain, B2B, cross-border and crowdsourced (Dada). In 2007, JD.com decided to build its own storage and distribution. For example, my home appliances (washing machines, air conditioners, water heaters, etc.)

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Jolt Energy Storage Technologies Win Wallenius Wilhelmsen Orcelle Award

Logistics Manager

COO for Wallenius Wilhelmsen Solutions, Raymond Fitzgerald on presenting the award said, “Sustainability used to be a choice that companies made. Established by Wallenius Wilhelmsen in 2007, the Orcelle Award is one of two $100,000 prizes awarded at the Ocean Exchange each year.

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Decision-forcing cases for logistics: practicing logisticians to overcome ‘wicked problems’

Logistics in War

A decision-forcing case drawn from the annals of the South Atlantic War of 1982, one called ‘Commando Logistics Regiment’, presents participants with a comparable conundrum. Between 2007 and 2017, Dr. Gudmundsson held the Case Method Chair at the Marine Corps University. The Road to Habbaniya’ is a two-problem exercise.

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The Growing Skills Gap & How Vocational Training Can Help to Shrink It

GlobalTranz

In 2007, the state created Apprenticeship Carolina, a program designed specifically to increase public recognition of accredited apprenticeship programs, and the program has been expanded to include Youth Apprenticeship Carolina, reports The Manufacturing Institute. .

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Energy Efficiency Is Key to Better Logistics

Material Handling and Logistics

With a goal of reducing emissions to zero by 2050, the company has pledged to increase the carbon efficiency of its own activities and those of its transport subcontractors by 50% globally by the year 2025, as compared to the 2007 baseline. UPS has been working on the issue in Europe as these older cities present major challenges.

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The hazards of Ammonium Nitrate and 100 years of related disasters

Shipping and Freight Resource

Pure AN is stable and will stop decomposing once the heat source is removed, but when catalysts are present, the reaction can become self-sustaining (known as self-sustaining decomposition, or SSD). Date:September 10, 2007. However, there are numerous cases when even impure AN did not explode in a fire. Country: Spain. Tonnes:400.