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Global Trade Compliance is a Massive Undertaking for Big Shippers

Logistics Viewpoints

In the US, for example, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) publishes lists of individuals and companies, and the addresses of those entities, owned or controlled by targeted countries. It also lists individuals, groups, and entities, such as terrorists and narcotics traffickers, that are not country specific.

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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

Then, I would start on another postal code, or group of postal codes, and carry out the same exercise, and so on, until I had assigned all the planning slips to routes. Drivers’ adherence to routes is visible in real-time, and planners can even change a driver’s itinerary on the fly, in response to a long traffic tailback, for example.