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Knowledge is power – Start managing your cargo shipments actively

Global Trade Management

I am talking about real time information that is coming directly from the cargo, for instance a sea freight container. One platform, one dashboard Based in the heart of Switzerland arviem is about to be a melting pot for global cargo monitoring. Let’s call this information knowledge.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

came from trucks carrying cargo. 15 countries, Austria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Uruguay and Wales declared that they will collaborate towards realizing 100 percent zero emission new trucks and bus sales by 2040.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Robinson Enters Switzerland Marketplace. Port truck drivers on West Coast protest costs, working conditions ( Cargo Business News ). Robinson announced that it has opened a new office in Basel, Switzerland. In this week’s news… XPO Logistics Acquires Optima Service Solutions. UPS Sets 2014 Rates. higher than in September.”

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The decrease of air freight, an opportunity for commercial airlines?

KEPLER Consulting

Air freight : situation and players. It is a bad time for air freight. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) attributes this decline to rising kerosene prices, Sino-American trade tensions and protests in Hong Kong – forcing world’s first cargo airport to shut down temporarily.

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How Blockchain Could Create the 'Autonomous Container'

Supply Chain Brain

The technology features chips that monitor temperature and humidity within a 500-meter range of an air-freight container. Smart Containers is preparing an initial coin offering (ICO) to support its use of blockchain for air-freight container monitoring. Where there’s a blockchain, a cryptocurrency can’t be far behind.

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The Beginning of the Beginning: A Progress Report on the Digitisation of Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

An indication for this belief is the level of fundraising reached by digital players like Flock Freight, a trucking platform and project44, a supply chain visibility platform, which reached US$113.5 Prior to La Poste, he was Head of Eastern European and Mediterranean Regions, and Country General Manager Switzerland at TNT.

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Logistics & Supply Chain News Roundup, January 2023

Logistics Bureau

Pilot Freight Services’ purchase of LTL company American Linehaul Corp. However, as the ocean freight environment has changed in the wake of the COVID pandemic and as a response to the current recession and inflation issues , the two companies agreed it was in their interests to exit the arrangement when the prescribed ten-year term expired.