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This Week in Logistics News (March 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

The top categories are food, beverages, apparel / accessories, and decorations. Amazon Air’s network is starting to look more like the hub-centric models of air cargo giants FedEx and UPS. Logistics startup Zipline has flown more than 38 million miles with its autonomous electric delivery drones since the company was founded in 2014.

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Driving Value Over the Last Mile

MIT Supply Chain

At a beverage and snack products company, delivery drivers for some product lines have three jobs: deliver the order to the retailer, replenish store shelves, and take orders. If a truck breaks down, for example, the company might send another driver or swap the cargo out of one truck onto another.

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Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking: Compliance with.

Global Trade Management

Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking. yearly, or approximately 8% of total excise receipts on alcoholic beverages, and VAT fraud is estimated to be 10% of VAT receipts.With such a large exposure, customs around the globe are demanding real-time reliable end to end data. arviem real-time cargo monitoring. Blog Archive.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 27 – May 1, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Ports See Costly Delays as Cargo Ships, Volumes Grow (WSJ – sub. billion USD) in pro-forma trailing 12-month revenue for the year-ended December 31, 2014. Norbert Dentressangle serves customers in retail, food and beverage, manufacturing, chemicals, agriculture, e-commerce and high tech. UPS Freight Adds LNG Tractors.

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Doing Business in Belgium

QAD

Typical manufacturing products made in Belgium include engineering and metal products, automobile assemblies, transportation equipment, scientific and precision instruments, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, textiles, glass, petroleum and food and beverages. Industrial production is growing at about.2 billion metric tons of goods in 2015.

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Logistics Technology and Startup Roundup: Q1 2016

Freightos

billion in 2015 (up 125% from 2014). billion in 2014 (up 31%). A British aviation service company ordered 12 Lockheed-Martin blimps , each capable of carrying 47,000 pounds (20% of a 747’s cargo capacity). While domestic trucking is fairly automated, spare capacity leaves room for efficient cargo space usage.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

manufacturing facility in 2014. Penske customers in the manufacturing, food and beverage sectors stand to benefit from the digitization of the supply chain and logistics processes, improvements in order accuracy and better tracking of physical assets.