Tue.Dec 28, 2021

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Carrier & Customer Portals: How Cloud-Based TMS Is Changing Logistics Collaboration

MercuryGate

Transportation carbon emissions are a major threat to the planet, and left unchecked, they have the potential to cause vast devastation and limit the abilities of humanity to thrive. Carbon emissions have risen in recent years, but as social media has grown and politics have evolved, ESG initiatives have become more commonplace. The post Carrier & Customer Portals: How Cloud-Based TMS Is Changing Logistics Collaboration appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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How to Support Customers When Supply Chains Are Unpredictable

Supply Chain Brain

The holidays are placing even more stress on supply chains. Here are four ways you can help lower stress, minimize damage and deliver positive customer service.

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Winter trucking tips that could actually save a life

Overdrive Online

There's no shortage of winter-driving guides, but nothing can make up for time and experience on icy roads. These three experienced owner-operators from up north all agree on one surefire strategy that can save you getting into an accident, or worse.

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Looking back at 2021: Lessons for manufacturers and distributors

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

2021 has been a year of transition. The evolving crisis and measures taken worldwide to contain the spread of the pandemic accelerated certain long-term and emerging trends. The past year has shown us that if organizations and industries are to keep up with the fast-paced change and uncertainty of the current market, they need to accelerate their digital transformation strategy.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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The highs and lows of 2021 over the road with Overdrive

Overdrive Online

If 2020 flipped the trucking world on its head, 2021 asked drivers to remain upside down while juggling and jumping through flaming hoops. Here Overdrive recounts an absolutely historic year where trucking issues finally broke into the mainstream.

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Supply Chain Strategies for 2022

LandLink

These last two years have presented both logistics planners and provider with the most volatile supply chain environment in decades. Supply chains have been severely impacted by COVID-19. A recent Statista survey found nearly 72% of businesses suffering detrimental effects related to the pandemic. Now, even as disruptions persist, supply chains the world around have begun picking up the pieces and charting new territory to recover.

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EV Range Set to Install High-Powered Charging Stations Across Two States in 2022

NGT News

EV Range Inc., an electric vehicle (EV) charging network based in California, is in the process of deploying a total of 26 high-powered (180-350 kW) EV charging stations across nine sites throughout California and Nevada in 2022. EV Range already owns and operates charging stations in California. Through grant funding from the Monterey Air Resources […].

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LM Podcast Series: AAPA’s Chris Connor Gives Overview of United States Ports

Logistics Management

During this podcast, podcast, Jeff Berman, Group News Editor for Logistics Management and the Peerless Media Supply Chain Group, interviews Chris Connor, President and CEO of the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA).

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RWE, Audi Give EV Car Batteries a Second Life as Energy Storage Systems

NGT News

A joint energy transition project between RWE and Audi is breaking new ground. In Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, RWE has put an energy storage system consisting of used lithium-ion batteries from Audi EVs into operation. Using 60 of these battery systems, this storage technology will be able to provide temporary storage for about 4.5 MWh of […].

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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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Captain and First Officer of Wakashio get 20 months in prison for endangering safe navigation

Shipping and Freight Resource

Captain Sunil Kumar Nandeshwar and First Officer, Hitihanillage Subhoda Janendra Tilakaratna of the 203,000 DWT Capesize vessel Wakashio which hit a coral reef and sank off the coast of Mauritius have each been sentenced to 20 months in prison. The ship owned by Nagashiki Shipping and on charter to Mitsui OSK Lines left China on 14 July 2020, heading for Brazil, but hit a coral reef at Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius on 25 July 2020 spilling oil into the Indian Ocean and eventually sinking in Mauritius

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Report: warehouse theft is primary cargo crime

Logistics Business Magazine

The well-established collaboration between international freight transport insurer, TT Club and the supply chain services and solutions team at BSI , the business improvement and standards company has produced the latest report on trends in the theft of goods entitled, ‘Cargo Crime in Gulf Countries and Regional Free Trade Zones’. Intended as a risk mitigation tool for transport operators, its timing might be more relevant given the spike in cargo movements running-up to the seasonal festivities

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Logistics Trade Agreements: What’s New for 2022?

Now, That's Logistics

The dynamic world trade environment is a place where rules, agreements and regulations tend to change regularly. John Rodriguez, Vice President of Customs, Schenker, Inc. says, “Keeping up with these shifts isn’t always easy and requires companies to pay close attention to what’s going on in the countries where they operate and those that they import from or export to.”.