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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

The executives surveyed identified these positions as those they believe currently most affected and that they expect will present even more severe staffing difficulties by 2020. Averting this outcome depends upon business leaders and government policymakers to actually implement measures to reverse the present trend. Skills Shortages.

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TPM24: Key Takeaways on Geopolitics, Technology and Other Drivers of Ocean Freight in 2024

Freightos

You can read the report and see our short webinar on the topic here. These discussions were particularly interesting within the context of our recent research on the state of long term ocean contracts, and the option to index-link agreements (which I heard mentioned once) and then hedge price volatility exposure through freight derivatives.

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Supply Chain Technology 2020: What to Expect?

Blue Grace Logistics

every year up to 2025. The digital platforms that helped integrate all organizational functions and manage and monitor the processes digitally have now given way to more sophisticated systems that present a mirror image of the on-ground supply chain functions.

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Cargo Chat: BlueGrace Execs Talk Nearshoring

Blue Grace Logistics

“New investment driven by nearshoring could reach about $46 billion in the next five years, helping boost Mexico’s annual [gross domestic product] growth to around 3% in 2025 to 2027, from an estimated 1.9% “Nearshoring has the potential to boost the growth of Mexican manufacturing exports to the U.S., trillion economy.

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How Will New Government Policies Impact the Transportation Industry?

GlobalTranz

In his proposed budget, the Present wanted a significant cut to funding for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Cuts were expected for both funding and personnel working in the EPA, which in December, announced intention for motor carriers and automakers to work to decrease fuel emissions even further by 2025.

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Here’s Why Image of Manufacturing as Boring, Dirty, and Tedious is Drastically Changing

GlobalTranz

Each setting is an accurate image of manufacturing from different time periods in history, the past and the present. By 2025, conservative estimates of the labor shortage in manufacturing stand out at more than 2 million unfilled jobs, as discussed in a previous blog post. Why and Where Does the Stalemate Stand?

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6 Manufacturing Trends to Watch Out for in 2016

GlobalTranz

A recent report by Frost & Sullivan, “The Future of Parts and Service Retailing in the Automotive Aftermarket” , predicts that by 2025, 10 to 15 percent of all global parts sales will be made online. Manufacturers will be able to improve their inventory due to the information presented by both supply chain and operations data.