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

Talking Logistics

UPS Freight Adds LNG Tractors. Reports 2015 First-Quarter Results. The press release contains a lot of details, but here are some highlights: Headquartered in Lyon, France, Norbert Dentressangle has 662 locations and approximately 42,350 employees…and had €5.1 Con-way Inc. Talks on EU-U.S. billion ($3.53 billion USD).

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CSR Initiatives in the Global Supply Chain

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Early in the pandemic, the company organized an airlift of two flights per week to deliver several hundred million masks from China to France. To help our customers keep track and make informed decisions about their freight transportation options, we have developed “ a logistics eco-calculator” hosted on our website. pandemic response.

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Did the Macron Law Influence Freight Rates into France?

CHAINalytics

By Olga Rissin| Product Manager, Freight Market Intelligence Consortium Europe & Russia | Chainalytics What happened to transportation rates after the Macron Law implementation in France? In 2015, France adopted the Macron Law which addresses many areas of the economy, including the transportation sector.

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Doing Business in Spain

QAD

Bordering countries include Andorra, France, Gibraltar, Portugal and Morocco. Spain has 99 airports with paved runways, most of which can handle freight planes. billion mt-km of air freight in 2015. In addition, the country has 10 heliports, making air travel and freight delivery a relatively simple matter.

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The Data Behind Amazon’s Logistics and Fulfillment Play

Freightos

Not even B2B is spared from these changing expectations (which is why we at Freightos launched an online freight marketplace ). While freight industry executives likely sighed with relief when an update of Amazon’s logistics.amazon.com page on June 28th turned out to be nothing more than a franchise model for courier delivery services.

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New download: SCM Map Europe 2014-2015

Supply Chain Movement

However, the main growth in freight flows lies on the periphery of Europe and the Middle East is also continuing to develop, both for domestic supply and for distribution to Africa. SCM Map Europe 2014-2015. A number of large factories have closed down in Western Europe while new ones have opened in Central Europe and further east.

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Logistics Responses to Europe’s Migrant Crisis

TMC

The flood of migrants into Europe that began in 2015 continues to be a major international issue in 2016. An estimated one million refugees and migrants fled to Europe in 2015 [1]. million trucks in both directions between France and the United Kingdom last year. The service carried some 1.5