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How Shipping Containers Revolutionized the Supply Chain Industry!

Supply Chain Game Changer

A trucking entrepreneur, Malcolm McLean recognized the inefficiencies of traditional cargo handling methods and saw an opportunity for innovation. In 1956, he launched the first container ship , the Ideal X, carrying metal containers from New Jersey to Houston.

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The need to know

EFT

The need to know from Reuters’ global network of journalists Retailers rush to save US summer shopping season U.S. Container ship owners swamped as US-China trade detente revives demand Container ship bookings for China-to-U.S. China to US ocean cargo bookings surge after tariff pause, Vizion says U.S.

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Ocean Container Tracking & Port Terminal Operations: Maritime Supply Chains and the “Visibility Paradox”

3rdwave

Dating back to EDI and XML, and now through solutions that employ the Internet of Things, GPS, API’s and Artificial Intelligence, there’s no limit to what people can build in their quest to facilitate global trade. With the above said, I’ve observed a “Visibility Paradox” regarding ocean container tracking that I believe requires a call-out.

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Transparency and integrity for your supply chain

Global Trade Management

The clarification of the question of guilt is time consuming and expensive. To collect the plurality of information different technologies are used that give whole containers its own intelligence to provide additional information, their condition and environment records which can be stored and even communicate in real time.

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ZF brings in SupplyOn to gain real-time transparency for overseas transport at the material number level

SupplyOn

The challenge: High operating expenses and manual status updates in overseas transport For its just-in-sequence production overseas, ZF has to precisely plan material delivery (Image: ZF Friedrichshafen AG) ZF Friedrichshafen AG delivers materials just-in-time and just-in-sequence (JIT/JIS) to many of its customers around the world.