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This Week in Logistics News (January 27 – February 2)

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cities over the course of the year, bringing the total number to 110. In some cases, shoppers can send back different items than the ones they bought, return stolen items or claim a purchase never got delivered when it really did. United Airlines – the largest of the three in terms of cargo volumes – registered a 31.1

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This Week in Logistics News (April 20 – 26)

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Colombian drug smugglers are disguising cocaine as “fake coal” within major bulk consignments to try to dupe port surveillance operations, according to a new report. It will be interesting to see how these smugglers will change course when fossil fuels are completely replaced by renewables. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Better Ways to Address Trade-Offs with Supply Chain Optimization

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He had a load full of cotton bales, and while idling away hours at a shipyard watching stevedores load other cargo onto ships he dreamed up containers that transformed global supply chains. Fusing analytical approaches improves the math behind optimization, but to avoid highly-efficient silos it should be paired with concurrent planning.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 15 – 21)

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This of course was an April Fool’s Day intro referencing Terminator 2. The past 36 hours have been a rollercoaster for anybody involved with cargo flowing through the ports in British Columbia, with the strike by longshoremen flipping between resumption and being called off. But here’s the kicker: there are eight more on the way.

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US Federal Maritime Commission Report- Little Comfort for Industry Supply Chains and Consumers

Supply Chain Matters

The following Supply Chain Matters commentary highlights this week’s report by the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) released this week the report: Fact Finding Investigation 29- Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the U.S. Overall Report Findings. International Ocean supply Chain. Background.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

The free report is available in PDF with supporting spreadsheets and high-resolution infographics here. Other sources reported that DB Schenker was not the only forwarder making this shift. The shift to full end-to-end integration, of course, leaves no one else in the middle. Today, 75 to 80% of cargo arrives on time.

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The Importance of Visibility In the Supply Chain

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On the other hand, a software development company wouldn’t need to purchase raw materials but rather goods – such as hardware – and services, like software subscriptions. Cargo Status Current information about the location and status of cargo is the first pillar of supply chain visibility.