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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

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Coke announces industry-leading target for reusable packaging. What Berglund is referring to is the advantage that shipping lines hold for negotiations with cargo shippers for 2022 and beyond. Design: make all primary consumer packaging recyclable by 2025 and use 50 percent recycled material in our packaging by 2030.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 15 – 21)

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Satirist Funk Turkey used lyrics.rip to scrape the Genius Lyrics Database and made a Markov Chain write Metallica lyrics. Warehouse rents near cargo airports skyrocket. The queue fell through the spring as Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, improved their cargo flows. Retailers help decarbonize ocean shipping.

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Bleak Peak 2022 Leaves Shippers Feeling Less than Thankful

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YoY Volume Lapses Worry Air Cargo Companies. A step away from a normal holiday peak season , air cargo volumes and rates have continued to fall. While demand remains high, the lack of volume points to a troubling lack of peak season increases for an air cargo industry already struggling with volatile fuel prices. Roughly 2.5%

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This Week in Logistics News (March 27 – April 3)

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President Biden introduces $2 trillion infrastructure package. Specifically, the top countries most impacted by the Suez Canal blockage include the UK, Germany, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Turkey, and Austria. More and more companies are boosting compensation packages to attract drivers.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 12 – 18)

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It’s hard to believe that we are getting ready for stuffed turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie. Thankfully my extended family swings toward the casual size, so it will be sweatpants for me as I enjoy turkey, all the fixings, and a rare Patriots Thanksgiving night game. billion in chemicals cargo a week.

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

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That’s a big ask, despite reports that four-way grain export talks between Turkey, the United Nations, Ukraine, and Russia finally appear to have reached a breakthrough. The vessels must be given safe passage through heavily mined Black Sea waters and without obstruction by Russia’s naval blockade of Ukrainian ports.