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World Autism Awareness Day: A Letter from Ann Marie Sullivan, CEO of Spectrum Works

MTS Logistics

The event is the shipping and logistics industry’s largest biking event ever. All proceeds from our annual bike tour event go directly to Spectrum Works to support its mission and work. A special thank you to MTS President Sedat Saka and the entire MTS team for making this impactful event possible!

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Supply Chain Management:Infosys Team at IBM Pulse 2013

Infosys Supply Chain Management

News & Events. |. « Dynamic Pricing : Is it really worthy | Main | Linear Asset Management and Dynamic Segmentation- Part I » Infosys Team at IBM Pulse 2013. I am back again in Vegas for IBM Pulse 2013. Hence summarizing the whole event in one blog. Last year, I covered the event with much more details.

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LogiMAT’s Kazander Takes Step Toward Retirement

Logistics Business Magazine

Kazander (67), a native Dutchman, joined EUROEXPO, a HUSS Group company, as Event Manager in 2003. Under his leadership, LogiMAT grew over the past 20 years from a small trade show at Stuttgart’s old Killesberg convention centre the most important international intralogistics event in the world.

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Editor’s Choice: Singles Day – A Retail Revolution

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, the gross merchandise volume of Alibaba Tmall has increased from $5 billion in 2013 to $78 billion in 2020 as below chart. In the past the event was only held on Nov.11 This year’s event featured two sales windows on Nov.1-3 In comparison, the total sales of Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the US was around $19.8

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

Shipping and Freight Resource

While the disasters of 2013 (MOL Comfort), 2020 (ONE Apus) and 2021 (Maersk Essen/X-Press Pearl) were the worst in recent times, across the period of 2008-2021 the WSC estimates that there were on average a total of 1,629 containers lost at sea each year.

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Increase in Overboard Containers: An Added Challenge for the New Shipping Era

MTS Logistics

The event was the worst since 2013 when the MOL Comfort split in two and sank with its entire cargo into the Indian Ocean. After powerful winds and massive waves battered One Apus in November, causing the loss of more than 1,800 containers, video footage showed thousands of containers were overboard.

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NEVA St Petersburg

Logistics Business Magazine

The 16th edition of the International Maritime Exhibition and Conference for Commercial Shipping, Shipbuilding, Offshore Energy, Ports, Inland Waterways and Oceanography NEVA 2021, the key event of the Maritime industry will be held in the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Centre on September 21-24, 2021.