article thumbnail

The Delicate Balancing Act: Resolving the Supply Chain Crisis While Minimising the Environmental Impact

Trimble

Back in October 2021, world leaders gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, at the United Nations (UN) climate change conference (COP26) to make a pledge to further cut carbon dioxide emissions; the major contributor to climate change. What is being done?

article thumbnail

Driving value into the supply chain

Automotive Logistics

This year’s Supply Chain Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, was held alongside the inaugural automotiveIT International conference last week in an effort to promote the kind of communication and cross-fertilisation of ideas that could help to solve these issues. “We Speeding up response times. Turning to academia.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Rewriting the rules

Automotive Logistics

To be eligible for state support, carmakers must score 100 points from 2019 under this system and 150 points from 2025, the ministry has stipulated. Using localised engines or transmissions will score 40 points, for example, while electronic systems or aluminium of Russian origin will score 20 points. .

article thumbnail

Progress for all to CEE

Automotive Logistics

The same trends are currently playing out in Hungary, where several important investment projects have recently been launched (see AL CEE conference report ). . Groupe PSA, for example, has recently confirmed that it plans to begin electric engine assembly in the Trnava plant in Slovakia. “We

article thumbnail

Logistics & Supply Chain News Roundup, January 2023

Logistics Bureau

National Fisheries Institute Global Seafood Market Conference on January 17, 2023, agreed that the just-in-time model is floating belly-up. An alliance between the world’s two most prominent ocean shipping lines will terminate after the mandatory ten-year period, which expires in 2025.

article thumbnail

The Future Is Now for Logistics

Material Handling and Logistics

However, members of the shippers and providers panel at the CSCMP press conference stressed that the tradeoff is a welcome improvement to safety now that drivers cannot cheat on their logbooks. million workers short of needs by 2025 -- an estimate issued three years before the current economic surge.

article thumbnail

Smart Lagos: Status, prospects and opportunities

247 Customs Broker

Although the Dubai example is perhaps a long shot, the promoters of Smart City Lagos are right to aim that high. The smart city vision of the state government was discussed extensively at a conference it sponsored during its “Lagos at 50” celebrations in May 2017. An example is Lara.ng Lagos Innovates’.