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This Week in Logistics News (May 14 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

Wingcopter to deploy 12,000 drones across Africa. Wingcopter this week announced a partnership with Continental Drones designed to establish a massive delivery network spanning 49 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa. This shift in strategy has been referred to as “ friend-shoring.”

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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

This year, with the LA Rams being Super Bowl champs, Good360 said it will ship thousands of “unsellable” Bengals-branded hats, T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, COVID-19 masks, and scarves to struggling people in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. The ongoing freight backups at maritime ports is disrupting global supply chains.

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Can B2B e-commerce solve supply chain issues?

Cathy Roberson

Quarterly earnings calls from various manufacturers are beginning to blur with references to supply chain issues potentially holding back the production of goods and higher costs being passed through as higher prices to customers. Available in Rwanda, it plans to expand across Africa and around the world.

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Plastic Pallets for Export and International Shipping!

Supply Chain Game Changer

However, these regulations apply when the wooden pallets are shipped to other countries, such as Africa. All treated shipping pallets must get the International Plant Protection seal, also referred to as the Wheat stamp. The regulations of ISPM-15 are not applied when the wooden pallets are shipped to the US or Canada.

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The World Bank Cares About Logistics

Supply Chain View from the Field

JP referred to the importance of logistical events in history to set the context. It is also a business opportunity for logistics hubs to be created, to serve different regions (such as central Africa). This is due to the high cost of transferring freight, the cost of cars stuck in traffic, and damage and waste of goods in the channel.

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Improve Supply Chain Management to Improve Business

Enterra Insights

Billal Chouli explains, “A supply chain is a network of suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers, as well as intermediaries including freight companies, warehousing companies, and brokers, who transfer goods, services, money, and information amongst one another. The importance of supply chain management. ”[7].

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DSV agrees to acquire UTi Worldwide Inc.

Supply Chain Network

Furthermore, DSV will now be truly global within contract logistics and expand into road freight activities outside Europe. The combined companies will have a more balanced geographical footprint with approximately 61% of revenue in Europe, Middle East and North Africa, 17% in Americas, 16% in Asia (APAC) and 6% in Sub-Saharan Africa.