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Continental commitment by African Governments to school feeding

World Food Programme Logistics

Spurring innovation, food safety and quality capacity strengthening and economic resilience This year’s Africa Day of School Feeding comes at the heels of the first ever Future of Food Safety Conference held at the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. School meals programmes are an investment in Africa’s future.

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Latin America and the Caribbean: a laboratory for climate action

World Food Programme Logistics

The World Food Programme is implementing an array of measures to face up to the region’s challenges As world leaders gather in Madrid for the 25th UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25), Salvadoran farmer José Cirilo Mendoza looks worriedly at the sky?—?five which could help them generate incomes and achieve food security.

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Supply Chain & Logistics News Roundup, October 2022

Logistics Bureau

That’s what pet care and consumer foods company Mars plans to do with the digital twin technology that it will roll out across its global factory network, having used it to improve production efficiencies successfully during trials. While digital twin technology is not new, it has only recently begun to gain ground as a supply chain tool.

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Resources for Women in the Skilled Trades

WorkWave

A lack of representation of women occurs in industries such as construction, manufacturing, utilities, other industrial types of employment such as agriculture and mining, or services such as repair and maintenance, automotive repair, and commercial and industrial machinery repair. Women’s participation in the U.S. Construction: 9.9%

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Digitalisation: quicker off the blocks

Automotive Logistics

Behind the frenzied hype of cryptocurrency and the attention bitcoin has received in the financial markets, blockchain has emerged as a digital technology tool that will transform the logistics landscape. The cloud-based platform will create visibility among all partners in a transaction. Make no mistake,” Mike White commented.

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The detention, demurrage fee conundrum

247 Customs Broker

Peter Friedmann, executive director, Agriculture. The FMC is uniquely positioned to set guidelines and a common understanding of what is fair and what is not fair,” said Alex Cherin, representing the California Trucking Association Intermodal Conference. Intermodal Conference. exporters. “If Carriers and terminals.