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DB Schenker – Singapore: A Vital Node in Singapore’s Logistics Ecosystem

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Singapore’s Status a Global Hub. From its peak, 97% flight capacity was reduced from Singapore Airlines. Typically, 45% to 50% of cargo is carried in belly holds of aircraft. With such dramatic reductions in flights, Singapore’s status of a logistics hub was put severely at risk. Keeping Supply Chains Moving.

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Current State of International Transportation Industry – LogiSYM October/November 2020

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Our vision at TRAMES, is to reduce global trade barriers through digitalizing international freight and transportation. TRAMES is all about International Freight Orchestration (IFO). Monopolistic supply is extremely rare, especially in the freight industry where service providers have varying strengths in the different markets.

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CSR Initiatives in the Global Supply Chain

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In Malaysia, CEVA Logistics worked closely with L’Oréal , a major producer of luxury and consumer products, to develop a social initiative of providing jobs for the hearing impaired at our warehouse since June 2020. CEVA was responsible for delivering hundreds of parts to the GM Kokomo, Indiana, facility, in the U.S.,

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Green Corridor: Pace and Resolve Needed to Help Reach Sustainability Goals

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As air cargo rates reduce, indicating a return of freight capacity, but could this also signal a massive carbon emission increase? Will shareholders be excited to allow companies to go back to the fatter pre-2020 travel expenses? Whilst it has indirectly led to improved sustainability, will it continue? I think not!

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The Beginning of the Beginning: A Progress Report on the Digitisation of Supply Chains

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An indication for this belief is the level of fundraising reached by digital players like Flock Freight, a trucking platform and project44, a supply chain visibility platform, which reached US$113.5 In a survey by the Institute for Supply Management released March 10, 2020, almost 75% of companies reported supply disruption due to Covid-19.

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Automation is here and transforming logistics

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million TEU (a TEU is a 20-foot container) in 2020. Hamburg, Singapore, and other busy ports are also conducting pilots of autonomous UAV (drone) operations to speed deliveries to ships, conduct inspections and perform other functions. The automated terminal handled about 5 million of Shanghai’s 43.5

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Interoceanic Passages

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This is due in part to the chokepoints they cause in the flow of global freight as well as the fact that they give people access to resources and commercial activity more effectively. It is standard procedure to unload some Mediterranean-bound ships and use the Sumed pipeline to move the excess cargo. meters in 2008 as opposed to 22.5

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