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Shipping Prospects Heat Up in the Arctic

Elementum

Further compounding the challenge is the political question of territorial sovereignty; there are currently eight countries claiming territory within the Arctic Circle: the United States, Russia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. China is another major source of trade with skin in the game.

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Shipping Prospects Heat Up in the Arctic

Elementum

Further compounding the challenge is the political question of territorial sovereignty; there are currently eight countries claiming territory within the Arctic Circle: the United States, Russia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. China is another major source of trade with skin in the game.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

The following is a 5,000 word exploration of Maersk’s strategic shift to end-to-end logistics services, based on open sources. Nearing the end of 2020, Maersk has remained true to that goal. Other sources reported that DB Schenker was not the only forwarder making this shift. Efficiency by unifying entities. It’s worked.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Revenue data is sourced from the companies’ websites and market research platforms such as Macrotrends. Read on to learn more about the top revenue-earning 3PL warehousing companies in 2020.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 5 – 11)

Logistics Viewpoints

Instead of the delivery of 300 million or so doses of vaccine immediately after emergency-use approval and before the end of 2020 as the Trump administration had originally promised, current plans call for availability of around a tenth of that, or 35 to 40 million doses. United Natural Foods Inc.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

billion of its total revenue in the fiscal year 2014, placing it as the third-largest source of income in the nation. billion tons of cargo (as of 2020). The 115 mile Oresund Strait, a nautical dead end linking the North Sea and the Baltic, is a gateway between Denmark and Sweden. More than 1.14

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4 Crucial Commodities to Watch in 2023

Resilinc

Some sources predict future lithium shortages due to the large quantities of water required for lithium production, which is taxing for areas like South America and Australia that are prone to drought. In July 2020, PFOA (a different kind of PFAS) was banned under the Stockholm Convention.

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