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Shipping Container Shortage–Another Bullwhip Example

Operations and Supply Chain Management

An ‘aggressive’ fight over containers is causing shipping costs to rocket by 300%. Shipping costs have skyrocketed as desperate companies wait weeks for containers and pay premium rates to get them, according to industry watchers. Compared with last March’s low prices, freight rates from China to the U.S. KEY POINTS.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In respect to logistics and transport something remarkable happened at COP26. The initiatives launched at COP26 will significantly reshape the transport and logistics ecosystem, its fleets, its infrastructure and its practices. The second Z – Zero emission shipping routes: the Clydebank Declaration.

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Gebrüder Weiss establish control tower concept for Hilti

Supply Chain Movement

During Translog Connect, held in Budapest on the 25-26 of November 2014, TEG The Events Group – the organiser of the logistics and supply chain management summit, is going to recognise and promote outstanding logistics and supply chain management solutions in the rapidly growing region of CEE again.

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Global Status of the Physical Internet — A Vision for Sustainable, Secure, Resilient Supply Chains

Freightera

Interview with Benoit Montreuil, Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Director, Physical Internet Center; Director, Supply Chain & Logistics Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Interviewed by Eric Beckwitt, Founder and CEO, Freightera. BM: Each region is approaching this differently.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

The following is a 5,000 word exploration of Maersk’s strategic shift to end-to-end logistics services, based on open sources. Demand for ocean freight was lower than anticipated, and Hanjin Shipping, another top ten ocean liner, was already teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. The Freight Game of Thrones.

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Eco-friendly Food Packaging: 8 Trends in Food & Bev Explained

Unleashed

Eco-friendly logistics packaging materials. This means they are backed up by a authoritative certification, such as: The European OK Compost Home standard (from TÜV Austria). Cut logistical costs by reducing weight, perhaps by moving to another material (i.e. Eco-friendly logistics packaging materials. Bioplastics.

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