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This Week in Logistics News (October 3-7, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Denmark’s DSV eyes more big acquisitions in fragmented freight market (Reuters). “We have doubled our capacity in the last twelve months and that allows us to ship to a majority of the U.S. Finally, yet another study was published analyzing different mechanisms to fund highway transportation projects.

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Logistics Technology and Startup Roundup: Q1 2016

Freightos

Amazon also made the headlines when its Chinese subsidiary registered as a licensed ocean transportation intermediary. Maersk experimented with using a drone to deliver goods to a container ship in Denmark , in an effort to save costs on barge deliveries. See Freightos’ CEO Zvi Schreiber TechCrunch analysis here.

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Building Profitability with Agility while Digitally Transforming the Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

In the upcoming hyper-connected world , the entire network can proactively sense and respond to potential supply chain disruptions caused by major events such as natural disasters and pandemics, as well as smaller events such as local weather, port congestion, equipment failure, capacity shortages and labor shortages.

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3 Uses of IoT Tech Spurring Sustainability in Supply Chains

GlobalTranz

The transportation of goods is one of the greatest contributors to worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. We'll thus be able to avoid delays, the buildup of excess materials where they're not wanted and underutilized capacity: all factors that can cause energy wastage. billion tons of oil in 2011, worth approximately $743 billion.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

Global Maritime Routes and Chokepoints Maritime routes are a few kilometers wide corridors that connect economic regions and cross land transportation gaps. Major routes also involve the transport of raw commodities, including petroleum, grains, minerals, and food items. They form a continuum. Potential for closure or interruption.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

Maersk would split into two divisions – a Transport & Logistics division, and an energy division. Meanwhile, the golden child – Transport & Logistics – charted three pillars for growth: Product offering and customer experience. million TEUs of capacity it must fill. million TEUs of ship capacity.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

The company has operations in more than 40 countries and specializes in integrating different modes of transport in logistics solutions. XPO Logistics XPO Logistics is a transportation and contract logistics management company with more than 1,530 locations in more than 30 countries around the world. Nippon Express owns more than 31.7