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The Impact of SOLAS on Ocean Shipping and Data Management

Talking Logistics

The Regulation’s Impact on Ocean Shipping and Data Management. The revised Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) container weight verification requirement is a significant change in the ocean cargo supply chain. Still, the requirement is not new and has been under development for a number of years following a milestone vessel collapse in 2007.

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8 Things to Know in Shipping, Freight, Logistics & Supply Chain this Week

Intelligent Audit

The FedEx Express team met the cargo plane at the gate to immediately move the coveted commodity toward the consumers. When the Russia-Ukraine war began, few understood the repercussions might bring flashbacks to the 2007–2008 global food crisis. Operation Fly Formula Is a Success. on May 22, 2022.

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Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking: 14 Tons of Cigarettes.

Global Trade Management

Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking. By the way: One of the containers washed off the vessel is a huge shipping container with as many as 11 million cigarettes inside (- but police are warning any wreckers looking for free fags to stay well away). Is cargo of ours damaged? arviem real-time cargo monitoring.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 26 – September 1)

Logistics Viewpoints

And when Mark Goodson and Bill Todman began shopping a modernized revival of The Price Is Right, Bob Barker joined on as the host, a role he would hold until his retirement in 2007. Until now, the minimum purchase for free shipping has been $25. Amazon has tweaked the free shipping threshold for non-Prime members in the past.

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Supply Chain Uncertainties Leave Industries on Edge

Intelligent Audit

Intelligent Audit CEO Hannah Testani, in a LinkedIn post congratulating her company on its performance, wrote “ I’ve never been more excited about the potential in our industry to truly empower shippers to ship smarter by leveraging clean, normalized, transformative actionable intelligence. ”. UPS Sets High Bar for Peak Season Hiring Goals.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 6-10, 2016)

Talking Logistics

In Google’s case, the company was issued a patent this week that, as reported in Quartz , “outlines a theoretical strategy for ensuring that autonomous and remote-controlled robots in a warehouse facility aren’t overloaded as they move cargo around the warehouse.” Grown by 100% year-over-year.

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Can Co-opetition Save your Company?

Elementum

The difference between BlackBerry in 2007— with a net worth of US $40B and BlackBerry in 2013—willing to be sold for a measly a tenth of its 2007 figure—has a lot to do with a failure to identify and deal with its competitors in the correct way. In 2007, it released the Kindle. Keep Your Friends Close….

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