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The Importance of Transportation Visibility

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I am working on my latest Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems study, which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2025, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, customer size, and mode. Transportation visibility is clearly not only for trucks.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 22 – 28)

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Amazon to double Europe EV fleet by 2025. Earlier this week, Amazon and Hawaiian Airlines announced that the retail giant will use Hawaiian Airlines to fly its first Airbus freighters on primary cargo routes and to Hawaii beginning in the second half of 2023. It expects to grow its fleet to more than 10,000 vans by 2025.

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Creating a Green Marine Supply Chain

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Plus, extreme weather events and changing storm patterns challenge seafaring vessels. Cargo transfer requirements. Once in port, each stage can be monitored, from pilot onboarding and cargo transfer to disembarkation. Apart from the environmental consequences of sea and air pollution, they also affect global trade.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 22 – 27)

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Amazon has launched Amazon Air , its dedicated air cargo fleet, in India as the e-commerce giant bulks up its logistics infrastructure in the key overseas market where it has deployed more than $6.5 On the heels of last week’s announcement of the launch of Prime Lite in India, the company is continuing to focus its attention in the region.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

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But what happens to the “Super Bowl Champion” apparel, or really from any major sporting event, for the losing team? What Berglund is referring to is the advantage that shipping lines hold for negotiations with cargo shippers for 2022 and beyond. Instead, they are printed ahead of time, for both teams.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 15 – 21)

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The initiative supports Nestle’s plan to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, starting with the goal of sourcing 20 percent of ingredients from regenerative farmland by 2025 and 50 percent of ingredients from the same by 2030. Over the coming weeks, many of our U.S.

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Risk Management in Global Ocean Context

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

It appears that operational and procurement risks for beneficial cargo owners or shippers, in the short term, are minimal. The pandemic exposed the vulnerability of our supply chain to disruptions and demonstrated that a lack of visibility of cargo flow at a granular level, wasa major handicap in most instances.