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5 Ways Technology Can Help Logistics Companies Tackle New Year Demand

Locus

The many benefits of technology include increased speed of identification, reliable, accurate and quick data gathering, processing, analysis and transmission. billion USD , and expected to reach 80 percent of the global population by 2030, the promise of enhanced speed and coverage will hold. Self-driving vehicles and drones.

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Why Taxing Automation is a Bad Idea

Talking Logistics

A detailed report on automation released in late November by global management consultancy McKinsey & Company made the bold prediction that “ Automation could kill 73,000,000 US jobs by 2030.” The continual and ever-evolving trend of self-service and automation has indeed made some occupations obsolete. Should we tax automation?

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Three Trends to Expect for Greener Shipping in 2023 and Beyond

MTS Logistics

For example, some companies are already looking into autonomous shipping, which could reduce the need for human labor and therefore reduce emissions. We have already seen initiatives such as IMO 2030, a campaign to reduce emissions 40% from 2008 levels, that started several years ago. For example, just this month, large U.S.

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STILL presents energy system webinar

Logistics Business Magazine

These include increased CO2 taxes, expensive emission certificates and a complete ban on internal combustion engines, which will make electric drives mandatory for all vehicles by 2030 at the latest. According to the expert, lead-acid batteries have a rather mediocre overall result in this analysis.

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European Union Leaders Agree Brexit Deal – So What Are Your Supply Chain Risks?

247 Customs Broker

For example, 23% of companies plan to stockpile goods, and many enterprises are looking to build more flexibility into supply contracts with European customers. For example, already there are reports of labor shortages in Britain’s agricultural sector as sources of immigrant labor dry up. Brexit Could Cost the UK £100bn a Year by 2030.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

247 Customs Broker

An off-cited analysis from McKinsey in late 2017, for example, found automation could destroy as many as 73 million US jobs by 2030, about one third of all jobs in the country. I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

247 Customs Broker

Gilmore Says… In a great example of the balance in this book, Sheffi notes the actual evidence of consumer preference for Green products is tenuous at best. In fact, after reading Sheffi’s examples, I’m surprised more companies haven’t been forced to be zealous advocates.