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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations

Logistics in War

Well-rehearsed mechanisms would be established that would assess the ability of the national support base to mobilise to meet the need, and plans developed to enable this to occur. Logistics and the strangling of strategy, 2017, Logistics and the strangling of strategy – Logistics In War. [2] 1] Beaumont, D., 2] Beaumont, D.,

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The New Faces of Trucking

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The passion these young students have is definitely not the norm as reflected in the current representation of women who are commercial truck drivers—approximately just 6 percent of the commercial truck driver workforce is made up of females and, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this is up only 1.1 percent since 2008.

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Africa-Asia economic relations: Let the private sector shine

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Bilateral forums, conferences, meetings and seminars happen more often than one can count, and usually result in numerous announcements – ranging from memoranda of understanding (MoU) to billions of financial commitments. of China’s overall FDI.

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Rewriting the rules

Automotive Logistics

At a meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in July, member states agreed that import duties on automotive components could only be increased by Russia after being officially signed off at the next EEU Council meeting on August 24, says Shavshina. . In 2017, Russia imported a total of 267,700 finished vehicles worth $6.7

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NASSTRAC Q&A: ODFL President and CEO Gregg Gantt

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Earlier this month, LM Group News Editor Jeff Berman caught up with Greg Gantt president and CEO of national less-than-truckload carrier Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL) at the National Shippers Strategic Transportation Council (NASSTRAC) conference in Orlando, Fla. How much is somewhat hard to say, but there is definitely some to be sure.

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Logistics IT: Is there an app for that?

Automotive Logistics

Carmakers have been working on improvements and updates – Ford, for instance, has made significant investments in software from German giant SAP, following this up in 2017 with investments in systems from Oracle and Infor – however, only so much can be done with the older systems in the face of persistent technological change.

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Smart Lagos: Status, prospects and opportunities

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With a gross domestic product (GDP) of about US$136bn in 2017, the city is already acclaimed to have the seventh-largest GDP in Africa. So did Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichal in July 2017. In May 2017, they started the installation of free wifi infrastructure across the city. Smart does not mean elite.