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Building a Global Logistics Juggernaut with Nourhan Beyrouti

The Logistics of Logistics

Nourhan is Global Chief Revenue Officer at AJEX Logistics Services , Saudi Arabia’s fastest growing transportation company. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, and currently residing in Dallas, Texas, Beyrouti’s career has taken him through 17 countries, enriching him with diverse international experience.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

The goal is to reduce or avoid one billion metric tons (a gigaton) of greenhouse gasses from the global value chain by 2030. The six areas are energy use, nature, waste, packaging, transportation, and product use and design. And Walmart recently rolled out extra levies for suppliers using its transportation services.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

By 2030, the Coca-Cola Co. Design: make all primary consumer packaging recyclable by 2025 and use 50 percent recycled material in our packaging by 2030. Collect: collect and recycle a bottle or can for every bottle or can sold by 2030. Sustainability continues to be top of mind for companies.

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Is Vertical Farming Falling Flat?

Enterra Insights

”[1] Reducing transportation costs is another benefit of urban agriculture. office space could be obsolete by 2030. coli contamination from the dairy farm upstream; and produce can be bred for flavor instead of for tolerance to heat, rain and long-distance transportation. ” The New York Times, 21 June 2022. [5]

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Amazon Workers Walk Out and Demonstrate for Grievances with Management

Supply Chain Matters

In the area of corporate sustainability efforts, employees indicate that the company has scaled back its Climate Pledge which included an original goal to reach net-zero emissions by 2030. The action further accuses the online retail platform provider of terminating two employees because of their involvement in the Amazon Labor Union.

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One Year After U.S. Withdrawal From Paris Agreement

EcoVadis

One of the most popular is the We Are Still In initiative, spearheaded by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and California governor Jerry Brown. While 20 percent of the tax would fund transportation infrastructure and renewable energy projects, 80 percent would be refunded to taxpayers based on income.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

Content Summary: Personal Mover Transports Employees around BMW Plant. To eliminate some of this traveling BMW’s R&D group developed a Personal Mover solution—a one-person means of transport for covering short distances within an operating site. Moving around a large factory can be exhausting. Several major U.S.