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Decarbonization Efforts in Maritime Transportation are Speeding Up

MTS Logistics

The summit, which was held in Copenhagen after two years of virtual meetings, was attended by around 100 representatives from all points along the maritime supply chain. Although largely a short-term solution, incremental steps could be taken to reduce emissions per vessel by as much as 5% per year by modifying current ship construction.

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STILL welcomes 64 new apprentices and students

Logistics Business Magazine

In the coming weeks, first insights into the different professional and learning environments, team-building activities, briefings on the current safety and prevention standards as well as a one-week forklift construction seminar will follow. For the first time, one of them is a female trainee in construction mechanics.

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Thailand Courts Foreign Investment, While Leadership Questions Remain

Supply Chain Brain

Those were among the phrases that officials voiced at a recent seminar in Bangkok organized by the Thailand Board of Investment (BOI). Kobsak Pootrakool, who holds the title of minister attached to the prime minister’s office, told the investment seminar that Thailand’s international competitiveness has been on the decline in recent years.

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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations

Logistics in War

Well-rehearsed mechanisms would be established that would assess the ability of the national support base to mobilise to meet the need, and plans developed to enable this to occur. Relationships would be maintained with allies and international support provides to complement support and sustainment available nationally. 15] Hellyer, M.

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Far from Sanctuaries: Sustaining a Fifth-Generation Fight in the Indo-Pacific

Logistics in War

This post is an adaptation of Mrs Cain-Riva’s presentation at the Williams Foundation’s #selfsustain seminar, held in Canberra on 11 April 2019. We must look critically at our sustainment and support constructs, and challenge our current paradigms of sustainment policy and practice. MOVING the force.

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Top 25 Supply Chains of 2018

Material Handling and Logistics

To speed time-to-market, the company has developed automated packaging and 3D printing techniques that can meet specific product package and label requirements in near real-time, notes Gartner’s analysts.