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Carbon Mitigation Actions; For The Planet, And for the Pocket

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

As a consumer, I expect when I invest in an appliance or a tool, it will keep working for a reasonably long time to bring a return. This is not just for meeting a target – it is for the health of our planet. More importantly, this same voluntary market is projected to increase to $50 billion by 2030. Planet earth is similar.

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Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The delays are attributed to supply chain issues at every stage – from the time of booking transport to gate in at the port as well as ocean transit time of shipping containers. In fact, global freight rates have increased tenfold since the start of the pandemic. points the month before, for the first time in months.

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Reverse Logistics emerging from the "dark side" and into earnings calls

Cathy Roberson

I spent time at the conference listening to members’ research needs and, best of all, their willingness to share data so that we can size the total, global, and regional returns market, figure out the average returns volume by type of business (retailer, manufacturer, etc.), by industry and lots more. collecting more than 2.5

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The Changing Trucking Industry

American Global Logistics

Ground transportation accounts for over 70% of all freight in the United States. The Rise of E-Commerce The explosive growth of e-commerce is dramatically affecting transportation and logistics. The demand for small, frequent, just-in-time deliveries is skyrocketing. That’s putting it mildly.

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Top 10 Logistics Trends That Could Impact Supply Chains in 2022

Locus

Logistics industry was experiencing capacity constraints, driver shortages, sudden upticks in e-commerce demand, new technologies, different fulfillment models , delays, port congestions, canal blockage etc. Demand for last-mile delivery is soaring and is expected to grow by 78% globally by 2030.- Rewind to 2021!

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This Week in Logistics News (April 8 – 14)

Logistics Viewpoints

There have been stories of autonomous vehicles crashing which seems to set the industry back every time. “Around 0600 Pacific Time Tuesday morning, multiple Waymo vehicles in San Francisco encountered very dense fog and determined they should pull over temporarily,” a company spokesperson said.

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10 Trends in Supply Chain Management & Logistics for 2022

Unleashed

We’ve read the market reports, trawled the internet and identified key areas of change, and here we break these down for you with 10 of the major trends we expect to see in this industry in 2022 and beyond. Read more: Supply chain management explained: methods in modern business 1. billion to $5.6 billion in 2021. billion by 2028.