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GEFCO Flies Emergency Medical Supplies from China to Central Europe

Logistics Business Magazine

Global logistics provider, GEFCO has transported a large shipment of medical supplies on special charter flights from Shanghai to Bratislava to help PENTA tackle COVID-19 in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Their safety is of course paramount and we’re doing everything we can to maintain this.”.

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Top 6 Supply Chain KPIs: Keep Your Dashboards Simple

Logistics Bureau

While having too many KPIs is undoubtedly better than having none, it can impede progress by creating a confused, complex mass of information that becomes difficult to sort out and use as a basis for action. Accurate documentation: This metric tracks the percentage of sales orders accompanied by accurate documents throughout the process.

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How Shippers and Small Businesses Can Support Green Shipping

GoShip Blog

The thing is, the transportation industry counts for 28 percent of the overall greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution.Small businesses employ more than 50 percent of the U.S. Of course, a complete change of packing materials can take time and investments. Alternative transportation modes. What do small businesses have to do with that ?

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Seafarers – We Need You, We Hear You, We Support You!

Shipping and Freight Resource

A statement from the IMO SG to seafarers dated 20th April 2020, said, “ I have written to all our Member States, urging them to recognize all seafarers as “key workers”, remove any barriers to your documentation and lift national travel restrictions so that you can get home on conclusion of your contracts, and rejoin your families.

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RFID Case Study: Can a Supply Chain be Digitised?

Logistics Business Magazine

What matters is speed, a complete overview of complex processes, and, of course, a maximum focus on the customer. Both processes, sorting at the crossdock as well as the transport, are carried out with RFID support. Solution: RFID hardware components. The centrepiece of the concept is the “intelligent load carrier.”

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Hanging in the balance

Automotive Logistics

In recent years, adds Cassani, the company has put various logistics improvements in place, which include “delivery time and stock optimisation, as well as eco-friendly transport improvements and others.”. Of course, this had a negative influence on carriers’ overall performance and planning.

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How to Get Your Forklift License: The Ultimate Guide [New in 2020]

Conger

Of course not. How to construct, transport, stack, and unstack loads. With lots of options and aggressive marketing for online certification courses, you've probably had this question cross your mind. Now that we have that out of the way, let's talk about what you can expect from online courses. First things first.

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