Sun.Feb 25, 2018

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Route Expansion Opens Up Malaysia and Far East for Port Pipavav

Logistics Manager

The Vessel XIN NAN TONG, owned by COSCO shipping arrived for the first time in Port Pipavav at the APM Terminal. This new destination is now part of their new Container Line 1 Service. The newly updated service offers links from India to the emerging markets in the Far East and a direct connection to Malaysia. The schedule for the service is as follows: Pipavav, Penang, Shanghai, Ningbo, Shekou, Nansha, Singapore, Nhava Sheva, Pipavav.

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Amazon’s wristbands

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

The biggest e-commerce company in the world keeps developing new ways to optimize their resources. How could them reduce costs without decreasing effectiveness? Some warehouses are already automatized using robots that move the shelve where the product that is required is located to where the employee is preparing the delivery, (I have found a nice post in this blog about this: ROBOTS IN AMAZON WAREHOUSE ) but what about those ones that are not robotized yet?

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Turkish Cargo Carries Tons of Cut Roses to Holland for Valentine’s Day

Airfreight Logistics

Turkish Cargo reported that they scheduled 12 additional flights between January 26th and February 12th in order to satisfy the demand of Valentine’s Day, bringing 906 tonnes of cut roses to the Netherlands from Kenya’s capital city Nairobi. With its tropical climate, Kenya stands out with its affordable and quality flower production, with flowers being exported to all over the world through Turkish Cargo.

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NextGen Supply Chain: Lights-Out Logistics in the Connected Warehouse

247 Customs Broker

Cross the threshold into Tompkins International’s newly-reopened Emerging Technology Center (ETC) in Orlando, and you’ll instantly find yourself immersed in a vision that the organization’s founder and CEO, James Tompkins , first dreamed of back in 2012. At the time, most supply chain managers weren’t thinking about putting robots in their warehouses or DCs; Amazon had yet to become the e-tailing force that it is now; and the most popular way to scale up a warehouse was to simply add more labor

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Artificial Intelligence and the Transportation Industry

Artificial intelligence has quickly become a feature of everyday life: Using face ID to unlock a phone, communicating with online chatbots, and letting “smart” appliances help manage our homes are just a few of the ways that we interact with AI regularly. Forward-looking businesses are also using AI to transform their operations and gain a competitive edge.

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Marrie Groeneveld Appointed CCO for SkyCell

Airfreight Logistics

Marrie Groeneveld has been recently appointed as the new Chief Commercial Officer for Swiss-based SkyCell with the role becoming effective as of February 1 st. The company is a global leader in solutions and services in the temperature-controlled containers sector. SkyCell also apportions a great deal of focus on providing a service to global pharma companies.

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The detention, demurrage fee conundrum

247 Customs Broker

There’s little in this world that’s truly black and white, something shippers, intermediaries and drayage providers may want to bear in mind while they wait for the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission to potentially issue a binding policy on the assessment of detention and demurrage fees in extraordinary circumstances. The FMC held two days’ worth of hearings on the matter in mid-January, a testament to how thoroughly the agency wants to understand the matter, and how multifaceted the issue i