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Where Governments Fall Short in Combating Forced Labor in Supply Chains?—?And How They Can Improve

MIT Supply Chain

Such crimes create “living and working conditions contrary to human dignity” ( ILO, 2012 ). At its worst, forced labor involves modern slavery and human trafficking where victims are taken from their home countries and restrained from leaving foreign worksites.

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OHB subsidiary LuxSpace and arviem awarded new ESA contract

Global Trade Management

Betzdorf, Luxembourg, May 22, 2014 LuxSpace received an ESA development contract for the design of an innovative container tracking device. ► 2012. (1). By having many service providers involved, which among each other are often not connected, the friction in moving goods from source to destination are very high. Subscribe To.

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Q&A with Sidney Johnson: Veteran Supply Chain Practitioner and Resilinc Advisory Board Member

Resilinc

I actually lived in Luxembourg for five years while I was at Aptiv, setting up our operating company—and I did the same thing in Ireland as well. We started working with Resilinc around 2011 or 2012. We were also in Europe, North Africa, and Asia. That’s where shortening that supply chain and lead time is extremely important.

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3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

Luxembourg. According to the figures by Armstrong & Associates for 2012 to 2013, global 3PL revenues rose only modestly (by 2.7%), while the growth rate in Germany was just 0.87% and a meagre 0.01% in Europe as a whole. Korea, Democratic People's Republic of. Korea, Republic of. Kyrgyzstan. Lao People's Democratic Republic.