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Delivering Hope: Taimen Transport Ships Life-Saving Vaccines

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Taimen has an extensive background in time-critical delivery and expedited shipments going back to 2012. In late 2020, as COVID-19 cases skyrocketed and hospitals were filling up, much-touted and long-awaited vaccines finally received emergency use authorization from the Food & Drug Administration (FDA). At Taimen, the phone rang.

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The $30 Billion Secret: How Amazon’s Logistics Saves You Time & Money

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Prime Membership: Amazon Prime – Subscription service offering benefits such as free two-day shipping, access to Prime Video, Prime Music, and exclusive deals. This subscription-based service offers customers free two-day shipping on eligible items, revolutionizing the e-commerce industry and setting new delivery standards.

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10 Books Logistics And Supply Chain Experts Need To Read

Freightos

I threw in a healthy dose of interesting (globalization, shipping trends and the business of logistics), a dash of history (the evolution of longitude), a sprinkle of next generation manufacturing (lean manufacturing) and some great company success stories (FedEx, Walmart. I think you’ll like the list too.

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Importing From China! The Essential Guide! (Video)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Since 2012, China has been the world’s number one trading country, and it shows no signs of moving from this spot anytime soon. This indispensable guide offers a helpful run-down of product selection, sourcing suppliers, shipping, and more. Check out Food Waste and World Hunger – The Food Supply Chain is Broken!

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Uber Freight: Another “Uber-for-Trucking”?

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Uber Freight: Another “Uber-for-Trucking”? After news broke last month that Uber was unleashing a trucking offering, it came as no surprise when it launched Uber Freight , an online trucking marketplace for US LTL. Load-matching technology (even the Uber For Freight model) isn’t new. That’s a lot of freight. Established.

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America's Trucker Shortage Is Hitting Home

Supply Chain Brain

And now this compression point is sending waves of pain through the supply chain from distributors and wholesalers to retailers and consumers in the form of fast-rising shipping costs. But by 2012, with the U.S. freight and generated $719bn in revenue in 2017, according to the American Trucking Associations (ATA). “We

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Identity Theft, Trucking Style

Talking Logistics

Then the con artists offer low bids to freight brokers who handle shipping for numerous companies. And of the 1,192 cargo theft incidents reported to CargoNet in 2012, 73 were described as fictitious pick-ups, a 25 percent increase over 2011. When the truckers show up at a company, everything seems legitimate.

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