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Exiger Has Taken the Supply Chain Risk Market by Storm

Logistics Viewpoints

These solutions use natural language processing, for example, to read online publications and other data sources, make sense of what they read, contextualize the data into information, and report supply chain disruptions caused by weather, geopolitical events and other hazards in near real-time.

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A Deeper Look into Time Slot Management

Logistics Viewpoints

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article on the benefits of time slot management. In that article, I highlighted the importance of the network effect on time slot management and related technologies, as well as the main benefits of a time slot management application.

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Mercy for the World: An Overview of Hospital Ships

MTS Logistics

On a sunny Sunday afternoon, while I was jumping from one news feed to another, I saw an article about Mercy ships and the latest news about Global Mercy, which will be the world’s largest civilian hospital ship. She is still under construction in Xingang, China and she’s being planned to be ready in 2021.

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How America's Clean Coal Dream Unravelled

Supply Chain Brain

I’m impressed,” said Jukka Uosukainen, the United Nations director for the Climate Technology Centre and Network, after a 2014 tour, citing Kemper as an example of how “maybe using coal in the future is possible.” Read full article. Energy from “clean coal.” “I’m It was a promise they wouldn’t keep.

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Logistics of Olympic Games

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

The Olympic Games are always carrying sportive but also economical promises – for the 2024 Games in Paris, 150 000 jobs are expected to be created, and 30% of them in the realm of logistics (the rest in construction and tourism). The transportation system is key, not only in the capital but also between all of the co-host cities.

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The chip shortage rages on

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

Anyone currently ordering a game console, smartphone or car risks paying more or waiting longer than two years ago (the black market that has been evolving around the ‘new’ PlayStation 5 since September/October is a great example). The bulk of these investments are for the construction of new factories. Why this subject?

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Hungary strengthens potential as intermodal hub

Logistics Business Magazine

In this article, Botond Kovacs-Mate (pictured), Branch & Country Manager in Hungary AsstrA-Associated Traffic AG , analyses the ramifications of Hungary’s current infrastructure projects for trade between China and Europe. Hungary is strengthening its potential as an intermodal transit hub by investing in the country’s railways.