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This Week in Logistics News (June 1-5, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Shippers looking to make deliveries in Mr. Dearborn’s region can look up his firm, work out a price, and use Grand Junction’s platform to arrange shipping and tracking without hefty technology investments that Mr. Dearborn said companies like his simply can’t afford. More consumers are open to alternate delivery options.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 21-25, 2016)

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One of my predictions for 2016 was that cross-border e-commerce would become the next frontier for shipping and logistics growth. E-commerce sales rose 29% in 2015 to $362 million, about 10% of total revenue. percent from 2015 to $82.4 percent from January 2015 primarily because of a 9.3 in February. Trucks carried 60.5

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The Messy Reality of Cross-Border E-commerce (Thoughts on UPS Acquiring i-parcel)

Talking Logistics

trillion by 2015). The i-parcel platform supports merchant’s websites with a local language welcome mat, fraud protection, fully-landed total prices (including customs duties and taxes) in local currency and numerous value enhancing features. And here are a couple Twitter posts: Anyone use i-parcel before for shipping?

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Cross-Border E-Commerce: Growing Fast, But Still a Messy Reality

Talking Logistics

It’s part of the reason why Descartes acquired ShipRush last year, a provider of e-commerce multi-carrier parcel shipping solutions. The fast growth of cross-border e-commerce is also a big reason why Pitney Bowes acquired Borderfree in May 2015 and why UPS acquired i-parcel in 2014. Cross-Border E-Commerce is Anything But Simple.

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Toyota and USPS See Opportunities for Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management

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It was back in January 2015, after reading an article in the Wall Street Journal about bitcoin, that my eyes were opened to the potential for blockchain technology to transform supply chain management. As I wrote at the time in Bitcoin: A New Supply Chain Operating System?

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Doing Business in South Africa

QAD

Commercial ship repair is also significant. Registered airlines moved 885,277,991 mt-km of freight in 2015. And although the Rand has been a volatile currency in the world market, there are signs of improvement. Industrial production is growing at about 1.2% Industry currently equals about 29.7% of South Africa’s GDP.

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Doing Business in South Africa

QAD

Commercial ship repair is also significant. Registered airlines moved 885,277,991 mt-km of freight in 2015. And although the Rand has been a volatile currency in the world market, there are signs of improvement. Industrial production is growing at about 1.2% Industry currently equals about 29.7% of South Africa’s GDP.