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Quantum-Powered Solution Tackles Logistics Optimization

Logistics Business Magazine

Unisys Logistics Optimization uses pre-trained models to generate answers to complex queries in seconds. Currently, the airline’s flight planners spend a significant amount of time manually selecting and assigning each shipment to unit load devices (ULDs), resulting in high operational overhead.

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How Automated Guided Vehicles Transform Material Handling

Conger

As part of a broader automation strategy that includes IoT devices and smart system integration—AGVs help create truly interconnected facilities capable of unprecedented levels of productivity and adaptability. This phased approach helps manage costs and provides valuable insights into optimizing workflows around automated technology.

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How Automated Guided Vehicles Transform Material Handling

Conger

As part of a broader automation strategy that includes IoT devices and smart system integration—AGVs help create truly interconnected facilities capable of unprecedented levels of productivity and adaptability. This phased approach helps manage costs and provides valuable insights into optimizing workflows around automated technology.

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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations

Logistics in War

Supply chains are ‘strangling strategy’, with the movement of commodities so significant an issue that logistics is securitising. [1] Australian Army unit load ammunition containers in a warehouse ready for delivery to artillery soldiers for the safe transport and storage of projectiles in the field. South Australian workshop.

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WFS GAINS IATA CEIV CERTIFICATION

Airfreight Logistics

Opened in September last year, the Center is the only dedicated facility at the airport – the second-largest air cargo gateway in Europe – with a team of dedicated and trained experts, temperature-controlled warehousing, and a transport fleet specifically adapted to guarantee pharmaceutical shipments integrity. Investing in Pharma.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The Evolution and History of Supply Chain Management

GlobalTranz

The “unit load” concept gained popularity and the use of pallets became widespread. In the mid 1950s, this concept was extended to transportation management with the development of intermodal containers together with ships, trains, and trucks to handle these containers.

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New Variants for Popular ULD Container Handler

Logistics Business Magazine

The handling of ULD (Unit Load Device) containers is a key logistical task in the air cargo sector. When retrieving the ULDs from the workstation or racking system, the X-Way Mover picks up the ULDs and drives them directly onto the runway or loads a dolly train depending on the location of the aircraft.