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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

The port handles about 11 million tons of cargo per year, including automobiles, containers, coal, and farm products. According to a widely cited framework by Christopher and Peck from “Building the Resilient Supply Chain” (2004), supply chain resilience consists of four dimensions: robustness, agility, redundancy, and flexibility.

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Industry Transformation: Advanced Manufacturing and Digitalisation of Supply Chain-Logistics

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

2.4 Government’s commitment to Environmental Sustainability include plans for a “Circular Economy” where waste materials are repurposed are reused or recycled as useful resources. Mr Singh was the Chief Executive of SATS Airport Services from 1998 to 2004. TRANSFORMATION OF SUPPLY CHAIN & LOGISTICS VIA DIGITALISATION.

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Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking: US CBP suspends GTX.

Global Trade Management

Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking. bound maritime cargo containers be limited to high-risk trade lanes. CBP officials said this additional information would allow the agency to be more precise in identifying risks and to thus conduct fewer and better-targeted cargo inspections. arviem real-time cargo monitoring.

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Tesla and the Future of the Trucking Industry

Elementum

The global trucking industry is currently facing two great challenges for sustainability: to transport a significantly higher volume of goods, and to further develop new means of delivery concepts. Around 14,547M tons worth of cargo was in transit in 2013, accounting for 73% of cargo delivered that year. in 2024.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Wolfgang Lehmacher!

Supply Chain Game Changer

I am judge of the IATA Air Cargo Innovation Awards and the Automotive Logistics Awards Europe. The work is summarized in several insight papers and white papers, covering topics like blockchain in supply chain, sustainable supply chain practices, intelligent assets in the context of circular economy, trade tech and 3D printing.