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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

House of Representatives vote to pass an act that would increase transparency in ocean shipping capacity and prices, sending the legislation to the U.S. The drone delivery partnership with Wing was born out of DoorDash Labs, DoorDash’s robotics and automation arm, and builds on a similar pilot launched in Australia in 2022.

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Roundtable Series: Scaling in a Compromised Supply Chain

Unleashed

Dairy alternatives haven’t, so they’ve outgrown the capacity globally of manufacturers.” So our business in Australia is much more developed, and we are 100% grocery distribution in the duopoly of Woollies and Coles. “In The lesson? SMEs need to walk the line between aligning with category growth and running out of stock.

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The Logistics Linchpin with Andrew Clark

Freight Plus

He then decided he wanted a career change and moved to pharmaceutical manufacturing in Australia. Following this, he ended up working for a business in Australia called Logistics Bureau. Let's discuss Coronavirus from the logistics point of view - what was your experience with coronavirus over in Australia?

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The Logistics Linchpin with Andrew Clark

Freight Plus

He then decided he wanted a career change and moved to pharmaceutical manufacturing in Australia. Following this, he ended up working for a business in Australia called Logistics Bureau. Let's discuss Coronavirus from the logistics point of view - what was your experience with coronavirus over in Australia?

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The Supply Chain Response to India’s Second Wave of Covid!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Australia too sent immediate support package of ventilators, oxygen tanks and PPE Kits. High capacity oxygen tankers were airlifted from UAE. Saudi Arabia shipped 80 Metric tonnes of liquid oxygen to India and Portugal assured 20,000 litres of oxygen per week to India along with 5503 vials of Remdesvir.

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Container ships to soon ‘sea’ low-carbon investments

Resilinc

According to Statista, the world’s merchant container ship fleet grew from 11 million metric tons (mt) of deadweight tonnage (a measure of a vessel’s weight-carrying capacity) to 275 million mt in 2020—a 2500% increase. Container ships are the backbone of world trade.

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The Secret to Rapid Digitisation: A Dual Platform Strategy

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This results in a set of over-simplified, aggregate and gross average-level decision-making that generates today’s poor performance, because increased inventories, capacity, transportation and logistics costs are required to buffer all such variances. Chris is based in Australia. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.