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This Week in Logistics News (April 29 – May 3, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Descartes opened up its wallet and made another acquisition, this time KSD Software Norway AS , a Scandinavia-based provider of electronic customs filing solutions for the European Union. In 3PL news, Con-way reported net income of $14.0 Overcapacity, Fuel Costs Hit Shipping Industry ( Fox Business ).

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This Week in Logistics News (July 24-28, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Norway Takes Lead in Race to Build Autonomous Cargo Ships (WSJ – sub. Amazon launches ‘The Hub’, parcel delivery lockers for apartment buildings (TechCrunch). Tesco launches nationwide same-day delivery (Logistics Manager). Next Leap for Robots: Picking Out and Boxing Your Online Order (WSJ – sub. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2017

Material Handling & Logistics

GEODIS, a third-party logistics provider (3PL), is using exoskeletons to support and protect employees’ backs at its warehouse in Venlo, the Netherlands. workspace://SpacesStore/ca4cc051-3c56-4fca-94e9-4c1a61196574. Content Summary: Exoskeletons Help Take a Load Off for Warehouse Workers.

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How are Christmas Trees Shipped?

Freight Center

Fun fact: The Christmas tree variety selected for the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree in New York City is a Norway Spruce from the village of Florida in Orange County, New York. Partner with a 3PL like FreightCenter who can help with refrigerated or custom shipping solutions all at affordable rates. Making it Easy.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

Beyond creating integrated offerings, the full 3PL integration into Maersk created more efficiencies. At the time of publishing, this service was still fairly limited in geographic scope, being offered to customers in Spain, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Netherland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Eleven of them. The Next Steps.

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Download now: 3PL Subway Map Europe 2016

Supply Chain Movement

Fourth release of 3PL Subway Map Europe. these are the main conclusions from Supply Chain Movement’s annual study as the basis for the 3pl subway map europe 2016, which shows the specific services of the most important logistics service providers. 3PL Subway Map Europe 2016. By Martijn Lofvers. >>Please Choose country.

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3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

For the third consecutive year, Supply Chain Movement has put together a 3PL Subway Map Europe showing the specific services of the most important logistics service providers which have offices in several European countries. >>Please SCM 3PL Subway 2015. Shipper-3PL relationships. Mozambique. Netherlands. New Caledonia.