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Purpose of the World Trade Organization

Globalior

WTO delegates regularly meet in Geneva. The WTO also conducts courses for government officials to build their expertise and skills, so that they may help their countries to better facilitate trade. Accessions Division: Facilitates negotiations between WTO members and others requesting accession. How does the WTO work?

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Building Relationships with Truckload Carriers

GoShip Blog

This shortage has significantly reduced shipping capacity, resulting in delays and increased shipping costs. Mitigating these complications can involve making penalty payments, providing extra documentation, or changing the shipping routes. Here are ways to go about it: Negotiate agreements with carriers.

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Looking Beyond Rates: Fundamentals of good contract negotiations go far beyond mere pricing

Blog on Log

Hiding behind pure numbers will only create a one-sided, noncompetitive, zero-sum contract winner — and doom the negotiations, to failure. But the true test of how both sides react will come in the next several weeks, as shippers and carriers wrap up what could be the most important contract negotiations in years, if not more.

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Top 6 Supply Chain KPIs: Keep Your Dashboards Simple

Logistics Bureau

Perfect order results can help you assess performance and diagnose issues impacting service, costs, and overall supply chain effectiveness. Accurate documentation: This metric tracks the percentage of sales orders accompanied by accurate documents throughout the process. Calculating the Perfect Order. x 0.96 = 0.8661.

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Risky Strategies Increase the Rate of Container Losses Amid Transit

ShipLilly

One of the options that can be used is to ask the insurer to cover part of or all the replacement costs. To meet the demand, shipping companies are stacking large quantities of cargo on increasingly narrow equipment. However, some experts are convinced that these vessels are being overloaded to meet the increasing demand.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 4-8, 2017)

Talking Logistics

The challenge, of course, is finding the right balance — that is, figuring out how to meet peak demand volumes without building out a network that goes under-utilized the remaining 11 months of the year. Maybe they’ll do better in 2018. Maybe they’ll do better in 2018. And with that, have a happy weekend!

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ICE Steps Up Review of Workplace Violations

Material Handling and Logistics

The costs of paperwork violations range from $224 to $2,236. Unlike an I-9 Form audit, in the case of a raid there is no three-day period to gather documents, and ICE agents will not wait for your attorney to arrive before conducting a search. The person receiving service of the NOI will need to sign a document acknowledging receipt.