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Logistics industry delivers HGV simulator to Zambia

Logistics Business Magazine

Four big names from the transport and logistics sector have come together to supply an HGV driver training simulator for the Industrial Training Centre (ITC) in Zambia, which Transaid has partnered with since 2008 to help meet the country’s growing demand for professional driver training.

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

GlobalTranz

manufacturing sector following recent years of reshoring and great slow-down of new off-shoring by major manufacturers, and gradual economic recovery from the 2008 financial markets disaster, appear likely to increase the workforce deficiency over coming decades, in light of ongoing staff shortages. Annually, 3.2 - 3.5 Filling the Skills Gap.

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How Cleaning Professionals Can Leverage Airbnb to Earn More Revenue

WorkWave

Airbnb was founded in 2008 in San Francisco. A loyal Airbnb host can be very profitable as a repeat client, so make sure your staff is trained and you have a standard of excellence that you continuously strive to meet. Learn more about training your staff in our article 7 Tips for Training New Maids and House Cleaning Employees.

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‘Photography became my blood’

World Food Programme Logistics

34 young refugees participating in the WFP Storytellers training in Bidibidi settlement, Uganda. “I My journey to be who I am today started with a training, just like the one you are on now,” he says. “As Bullen and Spike were reunited after ten years during the 2018 WFP Storytellers training in Bidibidi. everything changed.

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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

Here’s an example: Say your plant has a set of rules about how fork trucks are to be operated – speed limits, staying out of marked pedestrian lanes, etc. Throw them away if you aren’t willing to train to them, mistake proof to them and reinforce following them. Sometimes that gap is small. Sometimes it is huge.

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

Did You Know That … Early examples of intermodal containers include railroads from 1830s (various sized containers), and Pennsylvania Railroad regular container service (1929). Example of the massive decrease in dock workers as a result of containerisation. The first all double-stack train is developed by APL and UP Railroad.

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How COVID – 19 Might Shape the Future of China Sourcing and Manufacture

Logistics Bureau

Dun & Bradstreet researchers , for example say 51,000 companies, 163 of which are in the Fortune 1000, have “tier 1” suppliers in China, while at least 5 million have one or more “tier 2? Factories in developing countries, where costs would be lower, don’t have the technology or trained workforce to cope with modern demands.