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This Week in Logistics News (October 3-7, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Denmark’s DSV eyes more big acquisitions in fragmented freight market (Reuters). As reported by Reuters: The world’s largest retailer is now on track to double the number of giant warehouses dedicated to online sales to 10 by the end of 2016, according to Justen Traweek, vice-president of e-commerce supply chain and fulfillment.

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RELEX Retail & Supply Chain Award 2019: Best Master’s Thesis, Europe

RELEX Solutions

2017 Philippe Schuler, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark Food Loss and Waste in the Fresh Potato Supply Chain of Denmark Read more about the winners of the 2017 award. 2016 Aleksandra Koro?cik Previous winners.

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RELEX Retail & Supply Chain Award 2018: Best Master’s Thesis, Europe

RELEX Solutions

Philippe Schuler, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark. Food Loss and Waste in the Fresh Potato Supply Chain of Denmark. Read more about the winners of the 2016 award. Read more about the winners of the 2017 award. Aleksandra Koro?cik cik and Santiago Gomez, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.

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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. For example, early in the new year, Denmark tightened its border controls with Germany, after Sweden had imposed similar measures [2]. Let’s hope that in 2016 Europe finds solutions to their migrant crisis.

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Doing Business in Germany

QAD

km and borders the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and other countries including the Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland. billion euros in R&D in 2016. The country has a total area of 357,022 sq. Its population is evenly distributed across the country. of the labor force.

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The problem with renewable energy resources isn’t the technology, but the quantity of supply

Kinaxis

2016 has seen a number of major milestones achieved in fusion research, but current fusion experiments currently require more energy output then they produce. If they haven’t already, a number of people may wish to point out that countries such as Denmark or Portugal are very close to being completely powered by renewable energy.

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Logistics Technology and Startup Roundup: Q1 2016

Freightos

Logistics Technology Updates: Q1 2016. Ongoing investments in the logistics sector continued strong in Q1 2016, following the investment of $1.5 Maersk experimented with using a drone to deliver goods to a container ship in Denmark , in an effort to save costs on barge deliveries. The Big Picture.