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From Push-Cart to Cutting-Edge Robotics: China Skips Traditional Warehouse Automation

Logistics Viewpoints

Of course, this was an exaggeration, but it illustrated his point well. “ Of course, fiber optic land lines offer greater bandwidth. Government subsidies would certainly support domestic development of warehouse robotics. It doesn’t make sense to network a community in that way if you were to start from scratch today.

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Highlights from TPM 2023 with Peter Tirschwell

The Logistics of Logistics

A career business journalist, Peter has served as a maritime reporter, West Coast Bureau Chief, Editor in Chief and Publisher of The Journal of Commerce, over the course of his 30-year career with the JOC beginning as a maritime beat reporter in the early 1990s. the world’s largest container shipping conference, now 23 years old.

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What Georgia-Pacific Is Doing With Causal AI Is Remarkable

Logistics Viewpoints

Causal AI offers the tantalizing promise of being able to unravel the intricate web of cause-and-effect relationships that govern business operations. However, complex process manufacturing presents a much more difficult ATP problem than is typical in discrete industries. Of course, getting a promise right is vital.

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Charting a course for GHG emissions and the shipping sector

The Logistics Academy

Based on proposals presented at an earlier meeting last year, countries and industry organizations (ICS, the International Chamber of Shipping, the largest trade association in the sector) diverged in their views on how to deal with the sector’s emissions challenge. Setting a common course? Source : [link].

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WITRON wins “Bavaria Best 50” Award

Logistics Business Magazine

And to kick off the anniversary year, there was a special award from the Bavarian State Government. The award, usually presented in the course of an award ceremony in Munich, was received by the family company from Parkstein shortly before Christmas together with a video message in the mail.

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Predicting 2023 supply chain innovations

Logistics Business Magazine

If governments worldwide are to fully leverage the potential benefits to be had from a secure track-and-trace framework, they need to act now. 2023 presents opportunities for new trading routes to open up as many markets are shifting from their traditional ones. If we are up to the challenge this really can be a win-win.

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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

Indeed, the transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. Of course, every company with a distribution fleet to manage will have achieved some degree of maturity in the route optimisation journey.