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Chinese Port Lease Near U.S. Troops’ Australian Training Ground Draws Fresh Scrutiny

Supply Chain Brain

The country’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has launched a review of a lease to operate the Darwin Port that was granted in 2015 to a unit of China’s Landbridge Group.

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Creative Safety Supply: Kaizen Training and Research Page

The Lean Thinker

With that out of the way, I found their Kaizen Training and Research Page interesting enough to go through it here and comment on what I see. Maybe you could say that the Deming circle is for management, and the QC circle is for a group of people that work on faults encountered at the local level.” What, exactly, is “PDCA?”.

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AAR’s Hamberger lauds progress of Positive Train Control at House hearing

247 Customs Broker

As the late December deadline for the implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC) by United States railroads gets closer, the overall outlook for PTC looks encouraging. The objective of PTC systems is to prevent train-to-train collisions, overspeed derailments, and incursions into roadway work limits. not extended.

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AAR heralds Class I railroad positive train control implementation

247 Customs Broker

The Association of American Railroads (AAR) recently reported that Class I railroads have made significant strides in its efforts to implement positive train control (PTC) on 83.2% The objective of PTC systems is to prevent train-to-train collisions, overspeed derailments, and incursions into roadway work limits.

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A Look Back at 2021

3PL Insights

We recently earned the ISO 9001:2015 recertification in all six locations. We also deployed a company-wide training program focused on continuous improvement (CI); all managers were tasked with developing a CI project in their respective departments. This year, we continue to emphasize quality management as a top priority.

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Davies Turner’s Health and Safety Hat-trick

Logistics Business Magazine

For a third year in a row, the health and safety standards across the Davies Turner Group have led the UK Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) to presenting the company with an internationally-recognised award. He adds: “In a very competitive awards scheme, to receive a Gold Award once is an achievement.

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CILT releases driver shortage report

Logistics Business Magazine

In 2015, The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) carried out an opinion survey looking at the driver shortage crisis. The aim of this report is to establish a series of recommendations to fleet operators, industry and government, by examining the data and comparing it to the last report from 2015. Goods movement.