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This Week in Logistics News (January 27-31, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Robinson Opens Austria Office. UltraShipTMS: New Features for Cloud Based TMS and Transportation Optimizer. First, as in previous years, he called for increased investment in transportation infrastructure. We’ll need Congress to protect more than 3 million jobs by finishing transportation and waterways bills this summer.

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Mind Map for Order Management 2.0

Supply Chain Movement

Supply chains are becoming more complex with frequent adaptations, whether temporary or permanent, and increasingly with logistics outsourcing and calls for integrated transport management. Velocity’ refers to faster front/ back-office processes, physical execution and financial processes. Choose country. Afghanistan. Åland Islands.

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Freeports: The 2022 Guide

Unleashed

Different terms are used to refer to these zones – but while the terms differ slightly, the concept is similar. For clarity, here’s a quick definition of each term: A free trade zone – or free zone as it is also known – can refer to specific-purpose manufacturing facilities. Where are the major freeports in the world?

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The History and State of Vehicle Routing!

Supply Chain Game Changer

On top of that we have all other forms of economic growth, the expansion of outsourcing and global sourcing, all of which drive ever increasing demand on the over the road transportation of goods. In 2019 alone trucking accounted for almost $800 billion of expenditure in the U.S. The number of potential delivery routes is virtually infinite.

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

Unleashed

This means they are backed up by a authoritative certification, such as: The European OK Compost Home standard (from TÜV Austria). Biodegradable refers to plastic that can be broken down in an organic fashion (eaten by microbes, essentially) and turned into biomass, gas or water. What should ‘biodegradable packaging’ really mean?

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