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Sustainable transport: What are the choices for shippers?

Transporeon

Sustainable transport: What are the choices for shippers? Why is sustainable transport such an important issue? More and more companies are therefore aligning their entire supply chain with sustainability criteria – right through to transport logistics. So many transport journeys continue to be handled by road.

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13 Warehouse Types: Definitions, Functions & Examples

Conger

Plenty of examples of warehousing. Looking for a private warehousing definition? Now that we’ve covered private warehouses, let’s give a public warehouse definition. Lower transportation costs and faster order fulfillment with the ability to choose warehouses by their closeness to customer bases. Their pros and cons.

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5 Tips for Navigating Global Port Congestion and the Ocean Container Shortage

Now, That's Logistics

Most recently, delays, congestion, and container availability problems began hitting the terminals in southern China (e.g., During the week of May 30 th , for example, Yantian’s container dwell times rose to eight days and were expected to reach as high as 18-21 days by early-June. Plan your transportation well in advance.

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Sustainable transport: What are the choices for shippers?

Transporeon

Sustainable transport: What are the choices for shippers? Why is sustainable transport such an important issue? More and more companies are therefore aligning their entire supply chain with sustainability criteria – right through to transport logistics. So many transport journeys continue to be handled by road.

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DCSA Publishes Complete Framework of Just-in-Time Standards for Main Port Call Activities

Shipping and Freight Resource

Latest release of DCSA’s Just-in-Time Port Call Programme provides interface standards and API definitions for all 50 port call event timestamps. To provide a global industry framework that preserves investments, DCSA collaborated with ITPCO¹ and IMO² to align port call data definitions to existing standards.

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Transportation Planners: Their Role as a Catalyst to Automation in the Supply Chain

GlobalTranz

There are additional advances in automation that push the supply chain toward greater use and deployment of technology and transportation planners are the key. This might involve a system like mentioned in the opening example, where drones are deployed and return to trucks while on the road. Provide feedback to transporters.

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The Global Warehouse Automation Market is “En Fuego”

Logistics Viewpoints

There are many other similar growth examples in warehouse automation. I just wonder what I am missing, or what the big publicly available mutual funds are missing. Below are a few interesting tid bits from the publicly available information I have reviewed so far in my analysis of the global warehouse automation market.