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Freight Rates News December 2015

Freightos

Freight and logistics trends that rate in the news. Check out our roundup of nearly 100 digital logistics/supply chain sources. The big retail sales season started better than expected, in the U.S. First up, no surprises, China slowdown and depressed commodity prices, then the lifting of sanctions on Iran.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

shale or Iran, for example. The United States and Iran have been engaged in indirect nuclear talks in Vienna that could lead to the removal of sanctions on Iranian oil sales. FourKites , a provider of real-time transportation visibility solutions, has a big data set around transportation.

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10 Vital Supply Chain Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Iran and Spain were highly infected. TCO models can include variables such as unit price, Accounts Payable terms, cost of quality, lead times, technological value, logistics costs, management costs and more. Don’t Overlook the Role of Reverse Logistics. Shortly thereafter the tsunami of infections overtook Europe.

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Sorry, I’m Not Sure: Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2018

Talking Logistics

I will be wrong again,” I stated last year before making my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 , and I was right. But I was right with some of my other predictions, especially my prediction that we would see a rise in cyber attacks in 2017, with supply chain and logistics operations becoming new targets.

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Nationalism is Changing the Face of Globalization

Enterra Insights

” Nationalist regimes, like those in China, Russia, and Iran, have demonstrated they are more than willing to make that effort. Nearly everywhere, decentralized technologies and big data are allowing more ‘local for local’ production, something that may also end up being good for the planet.”[4].

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Mindmap High-Tech Supply Chain 4.0

Supply Chain Movement

Iran, Islamic Republic of. With emerging ground-breaking technology, such as Augmented and Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence with thinking robots, Internet of Things by interconnectivity between machines, 3D printing and Big Data analysis delivers threats and opportunities to high-tech companies at the same time.