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InSight, InControl: Real-time position and quality monitoring for production material transports

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Sea freight is one big black hole: while a container is at sea, the materials planner generally has to spend weeks trusting blindly that it will arrive at the port on schedule. But generally speaking, not even the shipping agent transporting the production material to the nearest port has this information.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 25 – July 1)

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US port backups are extending into freight rail supply chains. The deliveries will take place as part of a pilot that’s being conducted by Waymo and JB Hunt Transport Services to test out self-driving trucks along certain shipping routes in Texas. Waymo’s self-driving trucks will deliver home goods for Wayfair.

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26 logistics professionals reveal the biggest trends in logistics technology

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And they can be used to track the quality and certifications of upstream suppliers including fair labor practices, work-site health and safety compliance and environmental compliance to help maintain the reputation of the brand. These solutions allow for the rapid identification of counterfeit and diluted products. Christoph Seitz.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 15 – 21)

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Container-ship logjams off US ports finally easing as imports fall. Retailers help decarbonize ocean shipping. A semitruck equipped with Kodiak’s autonomous driving system is making daily delivery runs from an IKEA warehouse near Houston to a store close to Dallas, roughly 300 miles away. IKEA test autonomous trucks in Texas.