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The Value of Refrigerated Transport!

Supply Chain Game Changer

It’s essential to keep their products in a temperature-controlled environment from origin to destination through warehousing and distribution centers for safety consumption or usage. . Refrigerated transport may also cost lower than standard shipping methods (depending on your cargo). Hence, you can reduce waste and save money.

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Shipping Containers and Supply Chain Snarls: Is There a Way Out?

Enterra Insights

It used to take two days to get cargo off the docks. Marketing expert Robby Pedraza explains, “During World War II, standard sized shipping containers were developed to ship military cargo to the front lines. Conex containers evolved into modular units that could stack efficiently to store more cargo in one location.”[4].

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This Week in Logistics News (February 4-8, 2013)

Talking Logistics

percent in 2012 compared to 2011 (including contribution from acquisitions). percent from 2011. percent from Q4 2011; “net revenue grew at a lower rate than gross revenue, primarily due to slower growth in warehousing volumes at current accounts, and tighter margins on new business.” percent in Q4 2011.

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Fulfillment-as-a-Service

ModusLink Corporation

The best Fulfillment companies make use of the most innovative technologies such as IoT (Internet of things) e.g., temperature sensors for Cargo loads, AVG (Automated Guided Vehicles) to maximize warehouse efficiency. 2011, 4 november). The main one, optimizing resource allocation, has already been covered. 2014, 25 juni).

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This Week in Logistics News (March 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

Washington farm exports crimped by cargo-container shortage. A coalition of countries is pitching a plan to the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization (IMO) to require global shipping companies to raise funds for an effort to deploy widescale fleets of zero-carbon emission cargo ships within a decade.

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The Cost of Disaster

Elementum

For instance, Hurricane Harvey impacted nearly 10 percent of the trucking industry for two weeks and prompted several ports and businesses in the region to shut down, consequently forcing the mass rerouting of cargo to places as far as the Bahamas and Mexico. The bill amounted to $135 billion. magnitude earthquake and tsunami struck Japan.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 28 – September 1, 2017)

Talking Logistics

TSA reviewing cargo screening, concerned about terror vulnerabilities (CNN). As I wrote following the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in March 2011, the reality is that there is relatively little companies can do right now to minimize the impact of these disruptions. Cummins unveils electric tractor concept (CCJ).