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What Freight Brokers Should Expect in 2015

GlobalTranz

2014 was a dynamic year for shipping and freight, and 2015 might present us with some surprising changes as well. One month in, here are our predictions for freight brokers in 2015: Manufacturing Comes Home. Still, it’s likely that insurance minimums will be closely examined, and potentially raised, in 2015.

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Charting a course for GHG emissions and the shipping sector

The Logistics Academy

When the International Maritime Organization (IMO) meets in London this week (9 April 2018), the stakes are high. Since then, three official sessions and three intersessional meetings have discussed the challenges and opportunities of tackling GHG emissions from international maritime transport. Setting a common course?

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The Cancer of Fear

The Lean Thinker

I am sitting in on a daily production status meeting. The site has been in trouble meeting its schedule, and the division president is on the call. All of this is a unconscious but focused effort to present the illusion that things are progressing according to plan. The call ends. This is understandable. Asking for help?

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DSV reaches agreement to integrate Panalpina

Automotive Logistics

If the offer meets regulatory approval in June, the combined company will take on the name DSV Panalpina and by the fourth quarter of this year will become the fourth biggest freight forwarder globally behind DHL Logistics, Kuehne + Nagel and DB Schenker. “A It’s a great match on all parameters. according to DSV.

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The importance of cyber security risk management in shipping

Shipping and Freight Resource

Cyber security threats can present itself as malicious actions like hacking or infecting your systems with malware or innocent actions like lack of software maintenance on vessels, incorrect user permissions, weak passwords, unauthorised access etc. Cyber security should be an important component of an organisation’s overall risk management.

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Hoping and planning for the best: understanding war without logistics

Logistics in War

Security is being recast as international logistics systems and supply chains contribute to the reshaping of the global order, and strategic policy intertwines itself with economics and industrial power to create objectives for the military forces protecting national interests (it has, of course, been ever thus). & Coakley, R.,

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Clear Sailing for Ocean Carriers in 2018 — If They Don’t Blow It

Supply Chain Brain

Strong results for air freight, container shipping and export orders in particular suggest that, while the trade recovery may moderate in due course, it will likely continue in the coming months and remain above trend,” the report says. He presented his outlook for container shipping to the TPM Annual Conference in Long Beach, Calif.,