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This Week in Logistics News (February 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

hope to slash shipping costs and save millions of dollars when they sit down later this month to negotiate long-term contracts with ocean carriers following last year’s surge in rates. The average contract cost of shipping a container from China to the U.S. network this year after its initial success at select facilities in 2022.

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Five Technology Patents that Changed the Supply Chain

Freightos

But there are still key supply chain innovations that remain eternal. The Shipping Container. Amazon Anticipatory Shipping. The Shipping Container, 1958. The shipping container changed shipping forever. Anticipatory Package Shipping , 2013. Ford Automobiles. Universal Product Codes. By 2013, over 33.7

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6 Manufacturing Trends You Need to Know

Arena Solutions

The engineering/manufacturing sector has a captivating attraction as a lucrative field for starting a career, thanks to technological developments and the exciting possibilities of working in industries like medical devices, electric vehicles (EV), aerospace and defense, consumer electronics, and biotechnology on cutting-edge products.

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Like Amazon, Your Success Depends on Logistics IT

Supply Chain Collaborator

For Walmart, this may mean modifying distribution center locations and shipping operations to accommodate increased direct shipping and ship-to-store fulfillment. Part of this may further involve better overall freight visibility supported by the innovative application of available tech tools like MacroPoint and FourKites.

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Experts Choice Of Top Online Logistics Resources

Freightos

Shipping Gazette Daily News. One of the most comprehensive daily summaries, and by far the leading Asian-based summary, China’s Shipping Gazette provides daily information about carriers, forwarders and technology. Since 1974 with industry-leading expertise in, well, American shipping. Arabian Aerospace.

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15 Types of Manufacturing Software (+ Who Benefits from Each)

Unleashed

Electrical, mechanical, and aerospace engineering and refrigeration and air-conditioning manufacturers all benefit from CAM software. The aerospace and aviation, civil and structural manufacturing, consumer products, medical devices and oil & gas industries. Who is CAM best for? Disadvantages: CAD systems can be costly to purchase.

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3D Printing Changes the Supply Chain

Kinaxis

An article in my local paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , had this interesting quote, “From aerospace to health care to consumer products to toys to medical devices, furniture … what I think you’re going to see is an explosion of use.”. Basically, it has become mobile. It has become additive manufacturing.