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New National Motor Freight Traffic Association Cargo Theft Framework Released

Supply Chain Digest

See More Bad News on US Cargo Theft.) Click here to send us your comments In response, the National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA) has just released a framework it says can help shippers, carriers and brokers fight back against the growing and increasingly sophisticated threat of digitally enabled cargo theft.

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FedEx Founder Fred Smith Dies at 80

Supply Chain Digest

Studying economics at Yale, Smith’s 1965 term paper pitched the idea of creating a logistics company that would carry only cargo, and do so for a package’s end-to-end journet, such that a package could be delivered almost anywhere in the US overnight. Get ready to pay higher prices for goods and services.

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Maritime CO2 Emissions are Rising Sharply, and Cannot All be Blamed on Diversions Around South Africa

Supply Chain Digest

There is one easy answer: a large number of cargo ships continues to avoid sailing in the Red Sea in and out of the Suez Canal, to avoid attacks from so-called Houthi rebels in South Yemen. Mike Ledyard Vested Program Faculty, Vested Way / University ofTennessee Posted on: Aug, 04 2017 Excellent article. What is going on?

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Regional Air Cargo Start Up TuffAir Sues Amazon over Alleged Trade Secret Theft

Supply Chain Digest

After securing access to TuffAir’s materials, Amazon abruptly ceased communications, only to unveil a remarkably similar regional air cargo model within months, based on the same technical, operational and strategic elements TuffAir had disclosed,” the company alleged in its legal filing. No comment as yet on the suit from Amazon.

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Is AI Hype or a Truly Revolutionary Technology Set to Transform Logistics? (AI Popup #3)

Freightos

Historically, we were able to use technology to wrangle standardization for things like pricing and rating, helping ExFreight emerge as the first digital forwarder. So we are currently experimenting with using the trained LLM developed for our chatbot, combined with filtering tools, to automate responses to various email inquiries.

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Is AI Hype or a Truly Revolutionary Technology Set to Transform Logistics? (AI Popup #3)

Freightos

Historically, we were able to use technology to wrangle standardization for things like pricing and rating, helping ExFreight emerge as the first digital forwarder. So we are currently experimenting with using the trained LLM developed for our chatbot, combined with filtering tools, to automate responses to various email inquiries.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

Key ways to mitigate risks associated with unstable supply chains are to conduct a company audit to uncover the issues, consider an assurance process, implement some training, consider how you can communicate more effectively with your suppliers, or perhaps by offering an incentive to your overseas supplier once improvements have been made.