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Driving the Mission with Graig Morin

The Logistics of Logistics

Graig has safely operated tractor trailers of all types, logging over 1.5 For the past 19 years, Graig has dreamed of owning and operating a driver friendly transportation and logistics company. He has spent countless hours studying the industry and all of its workings. million miles.

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Reducing Pollutant Emissions in Shipping

Logistics Business Magazine

The technology employed in order to use liquid ammonia as a fuel must therefore be hermetically tight and guarantee maximum operational safety. Their standard safety mechanisms make them suitable for hazardous, toxic and environmentally harmful fluids such as NH3, even under extreme operating conditions.

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World Shipping Council report on containers lost at sea identifies several active safety improvement initiatives

Shipping and Freight Resource

The WSC represents most of the major container liner shipping companies that operate more than three-quarters of the global containership capacity. Some of the main Active Safety Improvement Initiatives identified by the WSC report include: MARIN TopTier Study. Containers Lost at Sea. Initiatives by WSC .

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Case Study: CKF Systems Robots Pick Fragile Snack Product at High Speed

Logistics Business Magazine

Originally installed in 2008 the old line had begun to experience reliability issues caused by various hardware and software problems. With production going into tens of thousands per day, the client was keen to minimise the time needed to get the new system installed and operational. A tight deadline. Accurate high-speed performance.

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Analysis: Why the Biden Administration is Not Being Honest About Supply Chain Issues

MTS Logistics

However, when the speech and the underlying fact sheet is studied more closely, it unfortunately contains a range of misconceptions about how the shipping industry works. West Coast trade lane alone, there are at least twenty carriers operating. Even if we narrow the scope to the Transpacific to U.S.

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Creating a Green Marine Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

It is the IMO’s strictest environmental regulation to date and ushered shipping and terminal sectors in a new era to transform the way marine supply chains operate. To see these regulations through, the IMO is aiming to reduce total annual greenhouse emissions by 2050 by at least 50% compared to 2008 [4]. Operational Considerations.

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A Lean Leadership Pocket Card

The Lean Thinker

The article, in turn, summarizes (and slightly updates) Spear’s findings from his PhD work studying Toyota. 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. Kent Bowen. Go and see. Go and see for yourself.