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Top Trends in Freight Forwarder Digitization

Freightos

Using digital tools to help deliver great customer experience. . Robinson all rolled out new digital tools in 2019. For previous years’ reports: 2015 , 2017 , 2018. Both of these groups are showing progress and seeking to pose a threat to traditional freight forwarding, but likewise still have a way to go. .

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After the Storm: Recovery and Renewal in Spartanburg, South Carolina

Penske Move Ahead

23, 2017 – began like any other day. And thankfully, I didn’t because the tool cabinet behind my desk fell over right where I was sitting,” Nixon said. We worked to determine what was salvageable in the facility, staging good tools outside and collecting associates’ personal belongings and personal tools.

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Q&A: Bill Driegert, director of Uber Freight

247 Customs Broker

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman caught up with Bill Driegert , director of Uber Freight , earlier this month. What have you seen since the December 2017 rollout of ELD in terms of its impact on the marketplace as it relates to your business? Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. About the Author.

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Africa-Asia economic relations: Let the private sector shine

247 Customs Broker

Australian companies are a great example of private-sector-led development in Africa: In 2017, an estimated 140 Australian mining firms were present in 34 countries on the continent, having invested around A$40bn ($29.1bn) in just a decade, according to the Australia-Africa Minerals & Energy Group. Finally, Beijing.

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Why more businesses should reassess the voluntary carbon market

247 Customs Broker

According to the 2017 U.N. “If your company emits carbon, and you want to negate those emissions, it’s definitely the case that offsets can do that.” BSR’s Wei noted that the willingness of companies to act on value chain emissions “is a new tool to reduce emissions, and one we really want to encourage.”

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Is Saint-Gobain Serious About Reducing Their Carbon Footprint?

Logistics Viewpoints

A press release from October of 2021 stated that solutions sold by the Group over the course of one year result in the avoidance of around 1,300 million tons of CO2 emissions over those product’s lifespan. These avoided CO2 emissions from their products, they argue, are around 40 times the Group’s own total carbon footprint.

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Logistics IT: Is there an app for that?

Automotive Logistics

The Volkswagen Group has become a prime example. Thomas Zernechel, head of group logistics for the carmaker, recently told Automotive Logistics that the use of micro-services and apps as add-ons to its ‘backbone’ system was becoming more strategic for the group. Not so monolithic any more.