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The Maven Story with Avi Geller

The Logistics of Logistics

Since 2014, Avi has led Maven’s growth as an IoT platform that serves the transportation industry through real-time, mobile cloud enterprise software. Avi originally hails from Palo Alto, California, but started Maven in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania due to the city’s impressive innovation and technology resources.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog from Freightos , is a SaaS-enabled marketplace for the logistics industry. As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. In 2014, the shipping ports of America received $1.73 Readers' choice!

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4 Tips for Finding and Hiring Millennials for Supply Chain Careers

RFgen

The supply chain logistics industry may have a staffing problem. A report created by the Material Handling Industry trade group concluded supply chains will need to hire 270,000 employees per year between 2014 and 2018, according to Fortune. People make assumptions about logistics jobs. Innovative Recruiting.

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4 Tips for Finding and Hiring Millennials for Supply Chain Careers

RFgen

The supply chain logistics industry may have a staffing problem. A report created by the Material Handling Industry trade group concluded supply chains will need to hire 270,000 employees per year between 2014 and 2018, according to Fortune. People make assumptions about logistics jobs. Innovative Recruiting.

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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

GlobalTranz

Foxconn, for example, announced plans to reshore in Pennsylvania, investing $40 million for a mostly automated plant. Reverse logistics (returns, warranties) are more manageable closer to market. from abroad (mostly between 2010 and 2014, per Moser). With wages rising abroad, automation , a.k.a. Reshoring Stats Since 2013.

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Kane Is Able to Unveil Natural Gas Trucks and New Trailers on August 18

Consumer Goods Logistics

August 14, 2014 - Third-party logistics provider Kane Is Able, Inc. KANE -- www.kaneisable.com ) will hold a public event on Monday, August 18, 2014, to announce its entrance into the natural gas market. Pennsylvania Senator John P. Blake, owner Chris Kane, and company president/CEO Pete Westermann will give remarks.

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Transportation Funding vs. Immigration Reform (60 Minutes vs. Saturday Night Live)

Talking Logistics

For those of us that follow the logistics industry closely, the statistics and issues raised in the segment are not new to us, but educating the general public is important nonetheless because, at the end of the day, we all have to be willing to pay, whether it’s higher gas taxes or some other funding mechanism, to fix this problem.