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Why Containerised Freight Shipping is Daunting for SMEs

Logistics Bureau

However, freight shipping is the one activity that presents significant barriers to overseas-market entry, as you may have discovered if your business is starting to look across international borders for its next step in expansion. There are many rules, regulations, and requirements to comply with when shipping containerised freight.

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Challenges of Peak Season Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

With Black Friday, Christmas and Boxing Day sales just around the corner and unforeseen circumstances and delays, the potential for overwhelm is ever-present. For example, there’s no reason for trucks to travel hundreds of empty miles when a similar truck, equipped for the task, is more than likely unloading nearby.

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Decarbonise UK Freight Transport Sector

Logistics Business Magazine

Operating over three years, the UK Research & Innovation funded DUKFT Network, a collection of over forty academic, policy and industry organisation, undertook six research projects and two stakeholder events exploring how to mobilise investment that can enable UK freight decarbonisation whilst managing risk and maximising opportunity.

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The New World Economy of E-Commerce

Now, That's Logistics

Zulily’s business model revolves around product “events,” a fancy word for sales, perhaps 100 of them a day, that offer special prices and that typically last 72 hours. In any case, Zulily owns the freight processes involved in getting products to end users. Complex Logistics Scenarios. Robinson Worldwide.

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Berliner Luft & See hosted by FreightHub: Digitization in Logistics – do we oversleep the transition?

Forto

Last Thursday, we hosted our first innovation and networking event “Berliner Luft & See”. Right now there seem to be quite some funds, previously focused on nuclear energy for example (“Kernenergie-Fond”, 20Bn €). He presented a recent study by McKinsey and Google that confirmed the lack of digitization.

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The Top 5 Changes That Occur With AI in Logistics

GlobalTranz

The tech is using data to its full potential to better anticipate events, avoid risks and create solutions. For example, DHL analyzes 58 different parameters of internal data to create a machine learning model for air freight. A good example of supply chain robotics is the work of startup Fizyr. GET YOUR FREE WHITE PAPER.

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TCT: A New Collaboration between PSA and SCG Logistics

Logistics Manager

Coinciding with this historical event, we had an opportunity to speak with Mr. Goh Han Yong, Chief Executive Officer, and Mr. Charintorn Noparat, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Thai Connectivity Terminal (TCT), and Director of SCG’s International Logistics Business.