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Supply Chain Experiencing High Rate of Terrorist Attacks

Material Handling & Logistics

In 2016 a total of 346 attacks took place, against a wider range of industries and modes of transport than in any other year. The variety of attacks include targeting the oil infrastructure, hijacking and cargo theft through to contraband smuggling, extortion and kidnapping schemes. .

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Logistics Execs Split on Outcome of NAFTA Talks

Material Handling & Logistics

The survey of more than 500 global logistics executives is part of the 2018 Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index, an annual snapshot of industry sentiment and ranking of the world’s 50 leading emerging markets by size, infrastructure, transport connections and business climate. . In the 50 country rankings, Brazil slips two spots to No.

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It wouldn’t be Valentine’s Day without Logistics

Enterra Insights

Ricaurte notes, “Every February, shoppers depend on farmers in Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica for a universal token of love and affection – fresh cut flowers.” .”[2] All the sparkling wine Fronetics analysts report being purchased for the holiday seems to have been overlooked by the NRF.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Anti-narcotics investigators have uncovered substantial amounts of the disguised drugs in the past two years as smugglers go to ever-more elaborate lengths to get illicit cargoes on board ships. It will be interesting to see how these smugglers will change course when fossil fuels are completely replaced by renewables.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 6-10, 2017)

Talking Logistics

January 2017 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). For example, goods from Schneider Electric were transported on a Maersk Line container vessel from the Port of Rotterdam to the Port of Newark in a pilot with the Customs Administration of the Netherlands under an EU research project.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

Global Maritime Routes and Chokepoints Maritime routes are a few kilometers wide corridors that connect economic regions and cross land transportation gaps. Passages, capes, and straits are defined as geographical areas through which international shipping routes must transit. They form a continuum.

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