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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

Design: make all primary consumer packaging recyclable by 2025 and use 50 percent recycled material in our packaging by 2030. Small autonomous vehicles will hold up cargo, like shipping containers, and allow it to be transported on railway tracks just like larger trains do.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon to double Europe EV fleet by 2025. California, Mexico sign historic toll- sharing pact for Otay Mesa East Port. Amazon’s European operations have been at the forefront of the company’s sustainable transportation push. It expects to grow its fleet to more than 10,000 vans by 2025. decline in the volume of packages.

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Trends 2021: Megatrends, Part Two

Enterra Insights

They suggest looking at Mexico, Poland, Turkey, Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines. ” On the transportation and supply chain front, one trend in the U.S. .” The other two so-called BRIC countries (Brazil and Russia) are faltering. Footnotes. [1]

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This Week in Logistics News (May 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

One area is in transportation, such as mapping and planning routes, taking into account variables like the weather, Perego said. Evolving packaging: which involves making packaging 100 percent designed for recycling by 2025. At the 2023 North American Leaders’ Summit in Mexico City earlier this year, U.S. Mexico has pledged $1.5

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Musk's Electric-Car Vision Doubted by Major Auto-Parts Suppliers

Material Handling & Logistics

At the same time, governments are beginning to demand cleaner cars to curb pollution in mega cities from Mumbai to Mexico City. And investors seem inclined to reward those trying to transform transportation, with all-electric Tesla surpassing the likes of Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. by market value this year.

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A Big Week for U.S. Trade Legislation: Updates on TPA & GSP

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. This sets the stage for two critically important trade deals in the works: Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – The negotiating countries are: U.S., This could potentially come before Congress within the next two to three years.

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An update on copper

Resilinc

Those “long-term prospects” are embodied in the growing wave of green energy investment and the electrification of transport, heating, industrial processes, and other energy uses that now rely on fossil fuel combustion. Supply gaps might emerge after 2025 … with the expected rise in demand created by the energy transition.”.