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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

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By 2030, the Coca-Cola Co. Design: make all primary consumer packaging recyclable by 2025 and use 50 percent recycled material in our packaging by 2030. Collect: collect and recycle a bottle or can for every bottle or can sold by 2030. The ongoing freight backups at maritime ports is disrupting global supply chains.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

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This is a full five years ahead of the original target of 2030. A spike in COVID-19 cases in some countries, which is causing factory shutdowns and port delays, added to corporate woes as soaring freight and transportation costs are pinching profit margins.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 8-12, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Transplace Acquires Yusen Logistics’ Intermodal & Freight Brokerage Group. Freight trucking startup Shipwell gets a $10 million boost (TechCrunch). Trucking costs to halve by 2030, study predicts (LLoyd’s Loading List). Transplace Acquires Yusen Logistics’ Intermodal & Freight Brokerage Group.

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Will Robotics Emerging Technology Improve Logistical Efficiency?

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Among other things, the article reports that remotely-operated vessels will be common by 2030, semi-autonomous trucks will probably be common on American roads in five to 10 years, and the number of commercial drones will be 10 times higher in 2021 than 2017. Here’s how it happened.”

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 2.18-2.22

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Amazon promises 50% net-zero carbon shipments by 2030. Currently, Amazon does not release any facts regarding their green efforts and unlike 85% of Fortune 500 companies in 2017, they did not publish a sustainability report. Freight volumes in December and January were bolstered by two major factors: U.S. Spotify. ,

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10 Trends in Supply Chain Management & Logistics for 2022

Unleashed

In fact, investor funding for this technology has ballooned since 2017 , growing from US$0.1 Amazon vows to go carbon neutral by 2030. Globally it’s expected to reach US$342 billion by 2030 at a CAGR of around 6%. Automated trucking : It’s believed that use of self-driving trucks will be widespread long before self-driving cars.

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Is Saint-Gobain Serious About Reducing Their Carbon Footprint?

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However, their carbon reduction goals for their value chain operations for 2030 will not be changed. The 2030 roadmap is targeting a reduction in CO2 emissions of 33% for scopes 1 and 2, and of 16% for scope 3, versus 2017 ( definition for scopes 1, 2, and 3 ). There were also freight savings.