Logistics Viewpoints
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
by which a commodity is produced and distributed: the companies, materials, and systems involved in manufacturing and delivering goods). France clamps down on delivery depot ‘dark stores’ Upset by high prices, GM’s Cruise develops its own chips for self-driving cars.
Unleashed
JUNE 3, 2020
To put that another way: by the time a business in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan or the United States gets to Thursday they have produced, on average, what the UK needs a full Monday-Friday to do. The issue is also particularly bad for manufacturers. For many manufacturers, automation is synonymous with new equipment.
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Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
More recently, the massive scale of China’s solar-manufacturing operations has become an advantage, as it attracts talent, research money and ecosystems of suppliers. More recently, the massive scale of China’s solar-manufacturing operations has become an advantage, as it attracts talent, research money and ecosystems of suppliers.
Logistics Viewpoints
OCTOBER 13, 2023
In France, Friday 13th might have been associated with misfortune as early as the first half of the 19th century. Uber Freight and others that are testing autonomous big rigs in Texas and surrounding states. Maersk joins FedEx Corp., Kodiak, Aurora Innovation Inc. Daily market prices to move cargo from Asia to the U.S.
Supply Chain Movement
DECEMBER 10, 2021
Mainstream news reports are full of claims that supply chains are broken, citing widespread product shortages, overflowing ports and spiking freight costs. For upstream manufacturing, all it takes is one component to be missing to stop production completely, and it wouldn’t be possible to have a safety stock on everything.
Freightos
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
Late 2021 saw Maersk continue to shift towards vertical integrations, with acquisition of Senator, a German freight forwarder for $644 million dollars. While Facebook is looking at virtual reality, Alibaba and Amazon are looking more at freight. More on Maersk’s transition to an end-to-end provider can be found in this 2020 report.
QAD
AUGUST 11, 2020
Border countries include Austria, France, Vatican City, San Marino, Slovenia and Switzerland. Manufacturing in Italy. Italy is the second largest manufacturing country in Europe, behind Germany. Manufacturing accounts for 24% of the country’s GDP, and industrial production is growing at 2.1% annually as of 2017.
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